Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Shop in Capel Bangor adjoining Exchange House
Melindwr, Ceredigion, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Capel Bangor, Aberystwyth, Melindwr, Ceredigion, designated on 26 May 2004.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 26 May 2004
- Locality
- Capel Bangor
- Town
- Aberystwyth
- Community
- Melindwr
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.40320, -3.97023
- Cadw reference
- 82814
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1830 map "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 163 Aberystwyth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated in village, the second building after the garage on S side.
History
Late C19 lofted purpose-built shop building.
Exterior
Shop, painted stucco with slate roof. Broad gable front with bargeboards, unusual shaped quoins, timber shopfront and first floor large central pointed loft window in rusticated surround with keystone. Glazing with cross mullion, two big opening casements and fixed top lights, small panes with marginal bars.
Shop front has frame encompassing two plate-glass panes on either side of recessed door with single pane angled in. Double doors are half-glazed with large overlight. The outer piers are decoratively panelled with Gothic gabled caps on paired shaped brackets. Fascia and cornice between. Rubble stone side walls.
Reason for designation
Included as an unaltered late Victorian commercial building with unusual detail - a rare survivor of its type.
Nearby in the register
- 7 DolypandyDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Church HallEducationunder 1 mi
- Entrance gates to Church of St DavidReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Ty'r EglwysNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.