Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
10093
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
28/09/1961
Date of Amendment
25/09/1986
Name of Property
Harbourmaster Hotel (Formerly the Red Lion Hotel)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Aberaeron
Town
Locality
Aberaeron
Easting
245579
Northing
263005
Street Side
Location
Situated at the NW end of Quay Parade close to the sea front and facing SW across the entrance to the harbour.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Early C19. One of the earliest buildings in Aberaeron and contemporary with the Harbour built between 1807 and 1811 by Rev Alban T J Gwynne. Purpose built to enable the harbour master to monitor all shipping.
Exterior
Classical 3-storey and attic 3-window roughcast front with cill bands and rusticated long and short quoins. Slate roof with very wide boarded eaves, brick end stacks and central transverse gable with wide bracket eaves to ‘look out’ room lit by 2-pane semicircular headed sash window. 12-pane sash windows to all 3 floors, with deep plain reveals, lightly lugged architraves and projecting cills. Later projecting pitched slate roof porch to centre; 6-panel door and ornamental fanlight within.
Plain rendered right side with projecting chimney breast. Converted warehouse abutts at ground floor level. Plain rendered left side with 2 sash windows with glazing bars. Colourwashed rubble rear with narrow eaves and two 3-light sash windows with glazing bars to each floor with 2-light sash mezzanine staircase windows. Later extensions to rear.
Interior
Interior retains Geometrical circular staircase.
Reason for designation
Group value.
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