Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
10353
Building Number
20
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/11/1987
Date of Amendment
24/11/1987
Name of Property
Gallery 72
Address
20 Pier Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Aberystwyth
Town
Locality
Easting
258183
Northing
281688
Street Side
Location
On the corner with New Street at the top the terrace leading down towards the seafront.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Shown on 1809 map.
Exterior
Late Georgian 3-storey and attic stucco front, tall slate roof with wide bracket eaves, rendered chimney stacks with cornice and flat roof dormer offset to right. Small pane sash windows with architraves, lugged to 1st floor, bracket cills to 2nd floor; central window broader and with detached broad cornice below blocked central 2nd floor window. Victorian shop front, and blocked entrance with overall cornice, fluted pilasters and fascia ends to windows with colonnettes curve into recessed entrance with patterned ‘doormat’ and fanlight over half-glazed door. Blocked entrance to left with mutilated doorcase, modern shop window inserted.
Stucco 3-storey, 3-window New Street front; deep cill band to 1st floor over grooved ground floor that overlaps the corner. Blocked 2nd floor windows with architraves and bracket cills; 1st floor lugged architraves to one blocked window and two small pane sash glazed windows. Modern ground floor entrance and 2-storey entrance extension to rear.
Interior
Interior retains contemporary details including painted bracket cornices and acanthus ornamented former main entrance arch.
Reason for designation
Group value.
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