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
10370
Building Number
5
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/11/1987
Date of Amendment
24/11/1987
Name of Property
5 Portland Street
Address
5 Portland Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Aberystwyth
Town
Locality
Easting
258367
Northing
281811
Street Side
SE
Location
At the lower end of a terrace leading from Terrace Road to Bethel Chapel, Nos 1 and 3 no longer of special interest.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Shown on 1834 map.
Exterior
Late Georgian with later alterations. Three-storey and basement, 2-window scribed render fronts with end and central moulded quoins, rusticated ground floor and 1st floor cill band. Slate roof, hipped to right end, wide bracket eaves and ridge tiling; red brick chimney stack. Small pane sash glazing, some renewed to No 5; 3-storey bays to left of each front with wide cornices and faceted aprons. Ornate (Jacobean) architraves to right hand 1st floor windows over plain classical doorcases with pilasters, modern door to No 5.
Interior
Railed basement wells, ornate barley twist banisters to No 7.
Reason for designation
Group value.
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