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Crynfryn House - Unemployment Benefit Office

A Grade II Listed Building in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.4153 / 52°24'55"N

Longitude: -4.0854 / 4°5'7"W

OS Eastings: 258263

OS Northings: 281750

OS Grid: SN582817

Mapcode National: GBR 8R.NYJF

Mapcode Global: VH4FC.4KK8

Plus Code: 9C4QCW87+4R

Entry Name: Crynfryn House - Unemployment Benefit Office

Listing Date: 24 November 1987

Last Amended: 24 November 1987

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 10213

Building Class: Commercial

ID on this website: 300010213

Location: Set back from the adjoining houses, behind paved forecourt with iron railings and ornate openwork gate piers.

County: Ceredigion

Community: Aberystwyth

Community: Aberystwyth

Built-Up Area: Aberystwyth

Traditional County: Cardiganshire

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History

Once the town house of the Bonsall family of Ffronfraith; became a hospital after Sir Thomas Bonsall's death in 1821. C18 origins to L-plan structure.

Exterior

2-storey attic and basement scribed render 3-bay front with mainly ca 1900 detail; steep slate roof. Broad cross gable with pediment treatment and pendant; 4 pane attic roundel. Horned sash windows to 1st floor in square recesses to outer bays, arched headed recess to centre over entrance with console bracketed cornice on raised ground floor; modern door. 2-storey splayed bay windows with patterned slate lean-to roofs and ironwork window box holders over cornices; horned sash glazing and top ventilators. Some small pane sash windows to rendered rear. Modernisation for office use has removed most of the interior detail, main staircase is retained.

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