Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Plynlymon Hall including Caerleon
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Education
- Date of designation
- 24 November 1987
- Community
- Aberystwyth
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.42078, -4.08434
- Cadw reference
- 10405
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 southern end of the terrace between the Glengower Hotel and the Sea Bank Hotel. Set back behind cast-iron railings. Formerly 4 properties, combined to form Plynlymon Hall of Residence.
History
Designed by J P Seddon and begun after June 1868, completed by 1874.
Exterior
Gothic inspired group of symmetrical 4-storey and basement, 3-window snecked rubble fronts with freestanding banding; attic to Caerleon. Slate roof, stock brick chimney stacks and moulded brick eaves; horned sash windows. Stilted headed windows, to third floor arranged in pairs and triplets. Three-storey splayed bay windows with large dentil cornices and foliated capitals, except to Caerleon, cylindrical shafts and trefoil punched aprons. Blind pointed heads to central second floor windows; central arched entrances with fanlights over half glazed and panelled doors. Part blocked up basement.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- The Glengower HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- Sea Bank HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- Clarendon HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- Victoria House (Forestry Commission)Commercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.