Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Glengower Hotel
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
- 52.42051, -4.08433
- Cadw reference
- 10404
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
Near the S end of Victoria Terrace, Victoria House adjoining to right.
History
Designed by J P Seddon and begun after June 1868; built by Thomas Williams of Cardiff and completed by March 1871.
Exterior
Asymmetrical front formed from the combination of two properties; 4-storey and basement 3-window snecked rubble front with freestone banding to left; broader than but similar to those on the adjoining terrace; taller 4-storey and attic 2-window painted brickwork front to right in similar style to Victoria House. Slate roofs and cement rendered chimney stack; dentil cornice to left, machicolated cornice to right. Sash windows without glazing bars; stilted head to grouped third floor windows; 3-storey splayed bay windows with colonettes. Later splayed rubble porch to centre with arched headed windows flanking arched entrance. Tall pitched roof dormers to right with lancet windows; mostly paired lancets below and 3-storey splayed bay to left with attached colonettes and cast-iron Gothic traceried parapet. Gabled hood to porch with muscular Gothic corbels and modern doors.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Victoria House (Forestry Commission)Commercialunder 1 mi
- Plynlymon Hall including CaerleonEducationunder 1 mi
- Police StationCivilunder 1 mi
- Sea Bank HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.