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
9929
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
25/06/1984  
Date of Amendment
24/11/1987  
Name of Property
Welsh School  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Ceredigion  
Community
Aberystwyth  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
258447  
Northing
281558  
Street Side
 
Location
 

Description


Broad Class
Education  
Period
 

History
Dated 1874 (below centre window on north front). Szlumper & Aldwinckle, architects; Thomas Davies builder.  

Exterior
Gothic. One-storey, nearly symmetrical north front of 5 buttressed bays with gabled wings to right and left ends. Rubble facings, freestone dressings, yellow brick to eaves and plinth courses (and more extensively to rear elevation). Steep slate roofs with ridge cresting, square bellcote on ridge with spirelet, weathervane and cusped lucarnes. Pointed window with triple lancets in echelon under centre gablet, lesser windows are shouldered tripartites (modern porch to left), 4-light windows to outer gables. Side gables with 4-light transomed windows as before, quatrefoils to heads. Stepped elevation to Park Avenue with 2-and 3-light shouldered lights, tall tapered chimney stack (compare Butterfield) and ornamental iron grille-covers. Original ironwork railings with finials. Assembly Hall in north range with 5-bay interior; A-frame trusses (boarded above tie-beams), arched braces on mid-wall corbels (double to centre), all with pierced quatrefoils and chevron ornament. Original timber architraves with crossover corners, braced and boarded doors, boarded dados. Flanking classrooms with similar detailing and open roofs (now with lowered ceilings and modern partitions). Tablet in Assembly Hall gives opening date on 4 August, 1874, and Szlumper & Aldwinckle, architects. Wings extended to south, with some 189s detailing and modern alterations.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Group value.  

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