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
10403
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
24/11/1987  
Date of Amendment
24/11/1987  
Name of Property
Victoria House (Forestry Commission)  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Ceredigion  
Community
Aberystwyth  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
258354  
Northing
282305  
Street Side
E  
Location
At the S end of Victoria Terrace.  

Description


Broad Class
Commercial  
Period
 

History
Designed by J P Seddon and begun after June 1868; built by Thomas Williams of Cardiff and completed by March 1871 at a cost of £2,000.  

Exterior
Asymmetrical Gothic and 4-storey, 4 bay front with basement and attic, advanced and taller to right. Painted brick, formerly polychrome with machicolated cornice to right and 3rd floor toothed brick cill band continued to left as an eaves band. Overall string course between ground and 1st floors. Slate roofs, taller and steeper to right; polychrome brick chimney stack retained to left. Shouldered heads to right hand 4th floor windows; mostly bipartite windows below with attached shafts with foliage capitals. Two-storey splayed bay to left with similar windows and openwork parapet. Gabled hood to porch with muscular Gothic corbels to pointed arched entrance, modern doors. Plaque over the porch reads; "Thomas Francis Roberts, Principal of the University College of Wales 1891-1919 lived here 1904-1919". Three-bay right side elevation with similar detail, stepped down towards rear. Two-storey advanced bay to left with lean-to slate roof and swept eaves, tripartite windows, pointed to 1st floor, with attached shafts. Filled in former entrance to right with bracketed hood. Modernised rear with 2-storey extension.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Group value.  

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