10288

38-42  

II  

Designated  

24/11/1987  

24/11/1987  

Carpenter Hall (nos 38-42consec)  

38-42 Marine Terrace  

Ceredigion  

Aberystwyth  

 

 

258370  

282032  

E  

Midway along the Promenade, between the Bay Hotel and No 43.  

Domestic  

 

Shown on 1834 map.  

Mixed stucco frontage to structure with Georgian origins and Victorian and Edwardian alterations. Three-storey, basement and attic ranges flank taller 4-storey 2-window range, 5-window to left and 4-window to right. Rusticated pilasters and channelled ground floor to left, rusticated ground floor to centre and right, end pilaster strips and decorative first floor cill band. Slate roofs, bracket eaves, rubble and brick chimney stacks. Pitched roof dormer windows with mainly sash glazing. Left-hand range has alternate full height splayed bay windows with cornices, and sash windows (several blocked) with architraves. Central range has paired 4-storey bay windows, horned sash glazing with small pane upper sashes to double doors and fine traceried fanlight. Small pane sash windows to basement. Right-hand range has full height splayed bay windows to each bay with cornices and aprons of swagged plaster panels. Timber half-glazed porches with double doors to second and fourth bays, sash windows to basement. Small pane sash windows to rubble rear with brick cross range.  

Interior retains contemporary detail; barley twist columns carry arch to stairwell, moulded tread ends, acanthus cornices and bolection moulded doorcases.  

Group value.