Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Victoria House (Forestry Commission)
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 24 November 1987
- Community
- Aberystwyth
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.42034, -4.08434
- Cadw reference
- 10403
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1830 "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
At the S end of Victoria Terrace.
History
Designed by J P Seddon and begun after June 1868; built by Thomas Williams of Cardiff and completed by March 1871 at a cost of £2,000.
Exterior
Asymmetrical Gothic and 4-storey, 4 bay front with basement and attic, advanced and taller to right. Painted brick, formerly polychrome with machicolated cornice to right and 3rd floor toothed brick cill band continued to left as an eaves band. Overall string course between ground and 1st floors. Slate roofs, taller and steeper to right; polychrome brick chimney stack retained to left. Shouldered heads to right hand 4th floor windows; mostly bipartite windows below with attached shafts with foliage capitals. Two-storey splayed bay to left with similar windows and openwork parapet. Gabled hood to porch with muscular Gothic corbels to pointed arched entrance, modern doors. Plaque over the porch reads; "Thomas Francis Roberts, Principal of the University College of Wales 1891-1919 lived here 1904-1919".
Three-bay right side elevation with similar detail, stepped down towards rear. Two-storey advanced bay to left with lean-to slate roof and swept eaves, tripartite windows, pointed to 1st floor, with attached shafts. Filled in former entrance to right with bracketed hood.
Modernised rear with 2-storey extension.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- The Glengower HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- Police StationCivilunder 1 mi
- Plynlymon Hall including CaerleonEducationunder 1 mi
- County HallCivilunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.