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Welsh School

Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, designated on 25 June 1984.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of Welsh School, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation
Listed building, Grade II
Broad class
Education
Date of designation
25 June 1984
Community
Aberystwyth
Unitary authority
Ceredigion
Country
Wales
Coordinates
52.41365, -4.08265
Cadw reference
9929

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1883 map "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 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)
  • 1941 · Aberystwyth. (Internet Archive)

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Cadw's description

History

Dated 1874 (below centre window on north front). Szlumper & Aldwinckle, architects; Thomas Davies builder.

Exterior

Gothic.

One-storey, nearly symmetrical north front of 5 buttressed bays with gabled wings to right and left ends. Rubble facings, freestone dressings, yellow brick to eaves and plinth courses (and more extensively to rear elevation). Steep slate roofs with ridge cresting, square bellcote on ridge with spirelet, weathervane and cusped lucarnes. Pointed window with triple lancets in echelon under centre gablet, lesser windows are shouldered tripartites (modern porch to left), 4-light windows to outer gables. Side gables with 4-light transomed windows as before, quatrefoils to heads. Stepped elevation to Park Avenue with 2-and 3-light shouldered lights, tall tapered chimney stack (compare Butterfield) and ornamental iron grille-covers. Original ironwork railings with finials.

Assembly Hall in north range with 5-bay interior; A-frame trusses (boarded above tie-beams), arched braces on mid-wall corbels (double to centre), all with pierced quatrefoils and chevron ornament. Original timber architraves with crossover corners, braced and boarded doors, boarded dados. Flanking classrooms with similar detailing and open roofs (now with lowered ceilings and modern partitions). Tablet in Assembly Hall gives opening date on 4 August, 1874, and Szlumper & Aldwinckle, architects.

Wings extended to south, with some 189s detailing and modern alterations.

Reason for designation

Group value.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Designated Historic Asset GIS Data, The Welsh Historic Environment Service (Cadw), 2026-09-07, licensed under the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Cadw, the Welsh Historic Environment Service · Open Government Licence v3.0
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