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
10369
Building Number
56  
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
24/11/1987  
Date of Amendment
 
Name of Property
56 Portland Street  
Address
56 Portland Street  

Location


Unitary Authority
Ceredigion  
Community
Aberystwyth  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
258472  
Northing
281937  
Street Side
 
Location
At the NE end of the Street near the corner with Queens Road; detached to the right.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
Not shown on 1834 map.  

Exterior
Symmetrical late Georgian ; 3-storey, 3-window scribed stucco front with channelled ground floor, cill bands and second floor impost band. Slate roof, wide bracket eaves and stock brick chimney stacks. Horned small pane sash windows with architraves to first and second floor. Victorian bracketed hood over central entrance with ironwork cresting to fishscale slates. Recessed entrance with pilasters and 4-panel door. Similar detail to 3-bay right gable end with plain open pedimented treatment; plain bargeboards and boarded eaves except to left and right. Chimney breast with inset Ruabon brick scrolls at corbelled second floor level over blind pedimented and decorative panel. Similar glazing; first floor cill steps up around the corner. Second-storey, 3-bay cross range with similar detail adjoins leading back to set back Farmers' Union building. Furthest back 2 bays pedimented with inset plaster swagged feature. Blind panel over additional small pane window to ground floor. Rubble rear.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Group value.  

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