Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
10405
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/11/1987
Date of Amendment
24/11/1987
Name of Property
Plynlymon Hall including Caerleon
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Aberystwyth
Town
Locality
Easting
258355
Northing
282354
Street Side
Location
Near the southern end of the terrace between the Glengower Hotel and the Sea Bank Hotel. Set back behind cast-iron railings. Formerly 4 properties, combined to form Plynlymon Hall of Residence.
Description
Broad Class
Education
Period
History
Designed by J P Seddon and begun after June 1868, completed by 1874.
Exterior
Gothic inspired group of symmetrical 4-storey and basement, 3-window snecked rubble fronts with freestanding banding; attic to Caerleon. Slate roof, stock brick chimney stacks and moulded brick eaves; horned sash windows. Stilted headed windows, to third floor arranged in pairs and triplets. Three-storey splayed bay windows with large dentil cornices and foliated capitals, except to Caerleon, cylindrical shafts and trefoil punched aprons. Blind pointed heads to central second floor windows; central arched entrances with fanlights over half glazed and panelled doors. Part blocked up basement.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value.
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