Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
10529
Building Number
7
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/06/1961
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
7 St Marys Street
Address
7 St Marys Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Cardigan
Town
Locality
Easting
217815
Northing
246021
Street Side
Location
Prominently situated on corner of Chancery Lane.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Late C18 or early C19. Marked on Wood's 1834 map of Cardigan as owned by Lewis Evans Esq, solicitor and Town Clerk.
Exterior
Gentry house, now offices, in coursed blue lias stone inscribed as ashlar, with slate roof and rebuilt red brick end stacks. Two storeys and attic, 4-window range of 12-pane sashes with cut stone voussoirs and slate sills and no door to main front, moulded timber modillion cornice and central pediment with matching raking cornices and tripartite small-paned lunette. Facade is built against line of the slope and shallow terrace in front, blocking original basement windows, has spearhead iron railings.
West end wall has two C20 attic windows. North west rear wing, 2-storey with red brick north end stack, 2-window range. Ground floor has 6-panel door, traceried overlight and timber classical porch or 2 oddly proportioned columns, pilaster responds, triglyph frieze and cornice with similar modillion brackets to main house cornice. Two first floor windows, but only the one over the door original.
Small addition beyond, 2-storey with brick north end stack and first floor 16-pane sash, ground floor door and 18-pane fixed shop-window. Cemented window heads. Basement storey on inner front.
Rear courtyard, 3-storey, with arched large stair-light in centre of rear wall and rubble stone wings each side.
Interior
Open-well stair with plain stick balusters and ramped handrail. Six-panel doors, shutters to ground floor rooms and mid C19 marble fireplaces to ground floor east and west rooms.
Reason for designation
Group value. The best surviving of the townhouses built by gentry of Teifiside in Cardigan and said to have been built for Brigstockes of Blaenpant.
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