Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
10281
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/09/1984
Date of Amendment
24/11/1987
Name of Property
Belle Vue Royal Hotel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Aberystwyth
Town
Locality
Easting
258307
Northing
281874
Street Side
E
Location
On the Promenade near the junction with Terrace Road.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Shown on 1834 map. At an early date it established itself as the main hotel in the town. J P Seddon produced plans for rebuilding it in Victorian Gothic style but they were never executed.
Exterior
Three-storey basement and attic mixed 11-bay (1+3+7) painted stucco front with part rusticated ground floor. To left incorporating the former cross range and right-hand pavilion of No 24; right-hand seven bays are stepped up. Slate roofs, bracket eaves and ridge cresting to cross range roof with pediment treatment to gable end; rubble chimney stacks. Sash windows replaced by modern glazing but retain architraves with scrolled and moulded keystones; some blocked to second floor, modern bay to left. Modern loggia forward to the street and entrance offset to right; sash and casement windows to basement.
Part scribed stucco right gable end; rubble rear with mixed rendered courtyard buildings reached off Corporation Street; arched headed stained glass windows.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for group value.
Cadw : Full Report for Listed Buildings [ Records 1 of 1 ]
Export