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
10404
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/11/1987
Date of Amendment
24/11/1987
Name of Property
The Glengower Hotel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Aberystwyth
Town
Locality
Easting
258355
Northing
282324
Street Side
Location
Near the S end of Victoria Terrace, Victoria House adjoining to right.
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.
Exterior
Asymmetrical front formed from the combination of two properties; 4-storey and basement 3-window snecked rubble front with freestone banding to left; broader than but similar to those on the adjoining terrace; taller 4-storey and attic 2-window painted brickwork front to right in similar style to Victoria House. Slate roofs and cement rendered chimney stack; dentil cornice to left, machicolated cornice to right. Sash windows without glazing bars; stilted head to grouped third floor windows; 3-storey splayed bay windows with colonettes. Later splayed rubble porch to centre with arched headed windows flanking arched entrance. Tall pitched roof dormers to right with lancet windows; mostly paired lancets below and 3-storey splayed bay to left with attached colonettes and cast-iron Gothic traceried parapet. Gabled hood to porch with muscular Gothic corbels and modern doors.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value.
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