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
10213
Building Number
17
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/11/1987
Date of Amendment
24/11/1987
Name of Property
Crynfryn House - Unemployment Benefit Office
Address
17 Eastgate Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Aberystwyth
Town
Locality
Easting
258263
Northing
281750
Street Side
NW
Location
Set back from the adjoining houses, behind paved forecourt with iron railings and ornate openwork gate piers.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Once the town house of the Bonsall family of Ffronfraith; became a hospital after Sir Thomas Bonsall's death in 1821. C18 origins to L-plan structure.
Exterior
2-storey attic and basement scribed render 3-bay front with mainly ca 1900 detail; steep slate roof. Broad cross gable with pediment treatment and pendant; 4 pane attic roundel. Horned sash windows to 1st floor in square recesses to outer bays, arched headed recess to centre over entrance with console bracketed cornice on raised ground floor; modern door. 2-storey splayed bay windows with patterned slate lean-to roofs and ironwork window box holders over cornices; horned sash glazing and top ventilators. Some small pane sash windows to rendered rear. Modernisation for office use has removed most of the interior detail, main staircase is retained.
Interior
Reason for designation
Cadw : Full Report for Listed Buildings [ Records 1 of 1 ]
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