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Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
10306
Building Number
8
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/11/1987
Date of Amendment
24/11/1987
Name of Property
A T Mays Travel Agent
Address
8 Market Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Aberystwyth
Town
Locality
Easting
258253
Northing
281677
Street Side
Location
Short terrace between Howells, on the corner of Great Darkgate Street, and the Talbot Hotel.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
No 6 is also the Masonic Hall and No 8 was formerly a tavern. Completed by 1832 when the street was opened.
Exterior
Later Georgian, with Victoria alterations to No 6, 3-storey, 2-window scribed stucco and render fronts with moulded rusticated quoins to No 6. Slate roofs, bracket eaves and brick chimney stacks. Small-pane sash windows to Nos 4 and 8, with architraves to No 4. Ornate architraves with keystones and bracketed cills to No 6 with horned sash windows without glazing bars; central panel reads "Masonic Hall" with square and compass. Victorian shop fronts to Nos 4 and 6; plain pilasters to No 4 flank shop window with keeled colonnetes and splayed entrance with half glazed door, modern door to right; unusual bracketed end pieces to No 6 over faceted pilasters, modern fascia, 6-panel door and 4-right shop window with large Gothic colonnetes. Modern shop front to No 8.
Interior
Reason for designation
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