Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Castle Chambers (previously listed with The Grosvenor Hotel)
Cardigan, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 16 June 1961
- Community
- Cardigan
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.08145, -4.66159
- Cadw reference
- 10464
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on street line, attached to Grosvenor Hotel.
History
Later C18. Marked on Wood's 1834 map of Cardigan as owned by David Davies and joined with Bridge House (Grosvenor Hotel). Old photograph ca 1930 shows a brick stack on front roof slope and pilastered porch with cornice.
Exterior
House, stucco fronted with hipped slate roof, moulded eaves cornice and rebuilt south end stack. Three-storey, 3-window range of cambered-headed windows 6-pane sashes to upper floor, 12-pane to first floor and plate glass to ground floor right. Centre door and left canted bay window. Sashes have painted slate sills and raised stucco surrounds with keystones. Door is late C20 and stucco has been scraped back to reveal cambered-headed blue lias stone doorway. Bay has plate glass sashes and hipped lead roof. Stucco angle pilasters. Three-window north end wall with similar sashes to upper floors.
Interior
Narrow dog-leg stair with stick balusters, 6-panel doors.
Nearby in the register
- The Grosvenor HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- Glenroy HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Dudley HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Manchester HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.