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
10440
Building Number
38
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
11/03/1992
Date of Amendment
10/02/2012
Name of Property
The Royal Oak P H
Address
38 High Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Lampeter
Town
Locality
Lampeter
Easting
257668
Northing
248122
Street Side
Location
Situated on streetline, adjoining National Westminster Bank.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Dated 1842 with a stucco front c1905.
Exterior
Hotel in painted stucco with slate roof and stone or rendered stacks. Three-storey main range of 3 plus 1 bays and forward-projecting 2-window, 2-storey addition to left, with roof to same ridge level.
Main range has rendered E stack and stone ridge stack, raised plinth, rusticated ground floor, broad first floor sill band, narrow second floor sill band and angle quoins to upper floors. One quoin has painted 'This pine end was wholly built on the property and at the expense of T H Jones in the year 1842'. Three-window symmetrical part to right has 2 ground floor 12-pane sashes above in moulded architraves and 3 9-pane sashes to attic. Bay to left is undifferentiated but has ground floor broad cambered-arched carriage entry with voussoirs and keystone and one window each floor above, matching those to right. Large painted Royal Oak panel between first floor windows.
Range added to left is in matching style with big stone E stack on ridge and small rendered W stack. Centre 6-pane sash to ground floor with voussoirs and keystone, 2 4-pane sashes to first floor. E return has 4-pane sash each floor. Roughcast W end wall. Carriageway has big wooden gate.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for its special architectural interest as a prominent public house of a mid C19 date retaining the form and fabric of this period and with a later remodelling of good architectural quality. Group value with other listed items in High Street.
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