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
10499
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
14/04/1992  
Date of Amendment
14/04/1992  
Name of Property
1 Priory Terrrace  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Ceredigion  
Community
Cardigan  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
217969  
Northing
246372  
Street Side
 
Location
Situated immediately east of Napier Street.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
Circa 1875-80, built and probably designed by William Woodward, builder and proprietor of the Cardigan brickworks. Marked on 1887 O.S. map.  

Exterior
Terrace of 5 houses, Red brick with extensive dressings in moulded or pressed brick, centre house is gabled and advanced, one-window with door to left, the rest 2-window and all 2 storeys. Upper windows are 4-pane sashes with notched brick segmental heads, slate sills and painted wood boards with incised crosses over window heads. Ground floors each have a canted bay with hipped metal clad roofs, but centre house has 2-storey bay in centre and door to left. Doors are all 2-panel, with notched brick segmental pointed arches and carved heads to varied designs as keystones. Centre house has bargeboarded gable and small pointed attic light. Red brick ridge stacks. Extensive decorative brick ornament to plinth, panels between bay windows and doors, panel to bay apron surviving only on No 9, big pulvinated zig-zag frieze between floors, leaf-pattern panels between upper windows and zig-zag and nailhead eaves course continued on centre gable.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
No 7 has had windows replaced in plastic, otherwise little altered and the best example of the numerous buildings in Cardigan displaying the products of the local brickworks.  

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