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
10157
Building Number
8
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
25/09/1986
Date of Amendment
25/09/1986
Name of Property
8 Water Street
Address
8 Water Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Aberaeron
Town
Locality
Aberaeron
Easting
245840
Northing
262825
Street Side
Location
Terrace forward to the street from the rear of No 7 Bridge Street to the corner with Albert Street.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Early to mid C19 (on ca. 1845 Tithe Map)
Exterior
Group of simple classical 2-storey scribed render fronts, except No 12 which is pebbledash; rusticated quoins, end pilaster strips, cill bands and plinths. Asymmetrical front to Nos 8, 9 and 10, 2 + 2-windows to No 8, 2 + 1-windows to Nos 9 and 10, 3-window fronts to Nos 11 to 14. Slate roofs, wide boarded eaves, 8 cement render chimney stacks. 12-pane sash windows to Nos 10, 12 and 13, 4-pane sashes to Nos 9, 11 and 14; various sash windows to No 8 with 1 splayed bay window to right; later 2-pane sash to ground floor of No 10. Lugged architraves and ornamental keystones to all windows except to Nos 8, 9 and 10 which have no keystones and No 13 which has voussoir lintels. Arched entrances with keystones except No 13, panelled architraves to Nos 8, 11, 12 and 14. Recessed doors, panelled with intersecting ribbed fanlight to No 8, half-glazed with 6-pane fanlight to No 9, 4-panel, with 5-pane fanlight to No 10, 3-panel with 7-pane fanlight to No 11, boarded with 2-pane fanlight to No 12, 8-panel with 5-pane fanlight to No 13 (also with scribed reveals), 6-panel with 5-panel fanlight to No 14. Further 4-panel door with fanlight to right of bay window to No 8 and beyond a boarded door with panelled architrave and ornamental keystone; irregularly curved arch to lane to right.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value.
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