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
9927
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
24/11/1987  
Date of Amendment
24/11/1987  
Name of Property
Salvation Army Citadel  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Ceredigion  
Community
Aberystwyth  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
258414  
Northing
281589  
Street Side
 
Location
Situated at the road junction near the corner with Chalybeate Street.  

Description


Broad Class
Institutional  
Period
 

History
Built 1844, as a Welsh speaking English Wesleyan Chapel and school at cost of £257; the street was then known as Lewis Terrace. In 1870, following the building of the Bath Street Chapel, it became Wesle Bach and in 1908 was purchased for the Salvation Army after their meetings in the castle grounds were banned.  

Exterior
Classical 4-bay roughcast gable ended front with pediment treatment and apex finial; rusticated quoins, plinth and impost band; slate roof. Bulls eye louvred attic opening with moulded keystons. Deep band with modern lettering over semicircular headed small pane sash windows with keystones, flanked below by similarly headed entrances; modern doors. Modernised interior.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
 

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