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Belle Vue Royal Hotel

A Grade II Listed Building in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.4165 / 52°24'59"N

Longitude: -4.0848 / 4°5'5"W

OS Eastings: 258307

OS Northings: 281874

OS Grid: SN583818

Mapcode National: GBR 8R.NYQH

Mapcode Global: VH4FC.4JWD

Plus Code: 9C4QCW88+H3

Entry Name: Belle Vue Royal Hotel

Listing Date: 18 September 1984

Last Amended: 24 November 1987

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 10281

Building Class: Commercial

ID on this website: 300010281

Location: On the Promenade near the junction with Terrace Road.

County: Ceredigion

Community: Aberystwyth

Community: Aberystwyth

Built-Up Area: Aberystwyth

Traditional County: Cardiganshire

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History

Shown on 1834 map. At an early date it established itself as the main hotel in the town. J P Seddon produced plans for rebuilding it in Victorian Gothic style but they were never executed.

Exterior

Three-storey basement and attic mixed 11-bay (1 3 7) painted stucco front with part rusticated ground floor. To left incorporating the former cross range and right-hand pavilion of No 24; right-hand seven bays are stepped up. Slate roofs, bracket eaves and ridge cresting to cross range roof with pediment treatment to gable end; rubble chimney stacks. Sash windows replaced by modern glazing but retain architraves with scrolled and moulded keystones; some blocked to second floor, modern bay to left. Modern loggia forward to the street and entrance offset to right; sash and casement windows to basement.

Part scribed stucco right gable end; rubble rear with mixed rendered courtyard buildings reached off Corporation Street; arched headed stained glass windows.

Reasons for Listing

Included for group value.

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  • II NO.20 Marine Terrace, Dyfed
    Short terrace set back from the adjoining Promenade frontages, the Belle Vue Royal Hotel to left; railed gardens to the front.
  • II NO.19 Marine Terrace, Dyfed
    Short terrace set back from the adjoining Promenade frontages, the Belle Vue Royal Hotel to left; railed gardens to the front.
  • II Belgrave House
    On the corner with Terrace Road, Belle Vue Royal Hotel adjoining to right. set back behind contemporary cast-iron railings with wave moulded uprights.
  • II National Milk Bars Restaurant
    Situated on the corner with Corporation Street.
  • II Grosvenor House
    On the corner with Terrace Road, Belle Vue Royal Hotel adjoining to right.
  • II NO.18 Marine Terrace, Dyfed
    Short terrace set back from the adjoining Promenade frontages, the Belle Vue Royal Hotel to left;
  • II NO.17 Marine Terrace, Dyfed
    Forward from Nos 18 to 20 to the left, towards the southern end of Marine Terrace.
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    Forward from Nos 18 to 20 to the left, towards the southern end of Marine Terrace.

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