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
10245
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
21/07/1961  
Date of Amendment
24/11/1987  
Name of Property
Padarn Hall  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Ceredigion  
Community
Aberystwyth  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
258249  
Northing
281610  
Street Side
S  
Location
At the end of the terrace, on the corner with Bridge Street, facing down Pier Street.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
Formerly the Gogerddan Arms and later the Lion Royal Hotel. In C18 it sometimes held the Court Leet and Quarter Sessions and held Nonconformist services in the yard. Built ca 1727; extended to E and S in 1869 for Sir Pryse Pryse with Billard and Concert Rooms by George Jones.  

Exterior
3-storey, 5-window scribed stucco front with rusticated ground floor, cill band, plinth and end pilaster strip to right. Slate roof, wide bracket eaves and rendered chimney stacks with brick cappings. Moulded architraves to 1st and 2nd floor windows; small pane sashes with bracket cills to 2nd floor, otherwise sash windows without glazing bars; inscribed keystones to ground floor. Central porch, which projects the full width of the pavement, has fluted columns and split 8-panel door. Stepped down 2 + 2 - window front adjoins in-line to left. Later horned sash windows; major part of ground floor has modern glazed front tripartite bow window retained to right with dividing colonnettes. Arched entrance to side passage to left with keystone, boarded door. Right side elevation in Bridge Street; 3-storey, 3 + 2 - window front with similar detail; 1st floor cill band steps up and down, mainly small pane sash windows; modern recessed entrance to centre.  

Interior
Extensively altered internally.  

Reason for designation
Group value.  

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