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
10406
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/11/1987
Date of Amendment
24/11/1987
Name of Property
Sea Bank Hotel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Aberystwyth
Town
Locality
Easting
258357
Northing
282386
Street Side
E
Location
Terraced group forming the N half of Victoria Terrace, at the N end of the promenade below Constitution Hill, between Plynlymon and Alexandra Hall.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Two houses to N end are probably contemporary with the southern end of the Terrace. Designed by J P Seddon and began after June 1868; shown on map of 1887. The remaining houses of this group were inserted in 1890; based on designs by Seddon.
Exterior
Reduced Gothic 4-storey, attic and basement fronts (except to Balmoral which has no basement); 2 to the S end have been combined to form the Sea Bank Hotel. Four-window to Sea Bank, 2-window to Clarendon Hotel, Queensbridge Hotel and Blaenwern, all with bull-nosed rubble facing. Double fronted 3-window snecked rubble elevations to the end two houses (Abergeldie and Balmoral) similar to those at the southern end of the terrace; the latter has been incorporated into Alexandra Hall of Residence. All have freestone banding and most fronts colourwashed; slate roofs, brick chimney stacks and moulded eaves. Pitched roof dormers, some with ornamental timberwork; modern glazing to Queensbridge and Sea Bank Hotels, otherwise sash windows in stilted headed recesses. Third floor windows grouped alternatively in twos and threes; splayed 3-storey bay windows below flanking the entrance, cylindrical columns with annulettes and some dentil cornices; Gothic trefoil punched aprons to Queensbridge and Clarendon Hotels. Modern ground floor loggia to Sea Bank Hotel; arched entrances to others with uncarved headstops, fanlight over modern doors.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for group value.
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