Victoria House (Forestry Commission), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion

Coordinates

Latitude: 52.4203 / 52°25'13"N

Longitude: -4.0843 / 4°5'3"W

OS Eastings: 258354

OS Northings: 282305

OS Grid: SN583823

Mapcode National: GBR 8R.NR08

Mapcode Global: VH4FC.5F4D

Plus Code: 9C4QCWC8+47

Entry Name: Victoria House (Forestry Commission)

Listing Date: 24 November 1987

Last Amended: 24 November 1987

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 10403

Building Class: Commercial

ID on this website: 300010403

Location: At the S end of Victoria Terrace.

County: Ceredigion

Community: Aberystwyth

Built-Up Area: Aberystwyth

Traditional County: Cardiganshire

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History

Designed by J P Seddon and begun after June 1868; built by Thomas Williams of Cardiff and completed by March 1871 at a cost of £2,000.

Exterior

Asymmetrical Gothic and 4-storey, 4 bay front with basement and attic, advanced and taller to right. Painted brick, formerly polychrome with machicolated cornice to right and 3rd floor toothed brick cill band continued to left as an eaves band. Overall string course between ground and 1st floors. Slate roofs, taller and steeper to right; polychrome brick chimney stack retained to left. Shouldered heads to right hand 4th floor windows; mostly bipartite windows below with attached shafts with foliage capitals. Two-storey splayed bay to left with similar windows and openwork parapet. Gabled hood to porch with muscular Gothic corbels to pointed arched entrance, modern doors. Plaque over the porch reads; "Thomas Francis Roberts, Principal of the University College of Wales 1891-1919 lived here 1904-1919".

Three-bay right side elevation with similar detail, stepped down towards rear. Two-storey advanced bay to left with lean-to slate roof and swept eaves, tripartite windows, pointed to 1st floor, with attached shafts. Filled in former entrance to right with bracketed hood.

Modernised rear with 2-storey extension.

Reasons for Listing

Group value.

External Links

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Other nearby listed buildings

II The Glengower Hotel
Near the S end of Victoria Terrace, Victoria House adjoining to right.
II Police Station
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II Plynlymon Hall including Caerleon
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.
II County Hall
Detached towards N end of the Promenade, with main entrance to side elevation in Albert Place and rear elevation to Queens Road.
II Sea Bank Hotel
Terraced group forming the N half of Victoria Terrace, at the N end of the promenade below Constitution Hill, between Plynlymon and Alexandra Hall.
II Clarendon Hotel
Terraced group forming the N half of Victoria Terrace, at the N end of the Promenade below Constitution Hill, between Plynlymon and Alexandra Hall.
II Queensbridge Hotel
Terraced group forming the N half of Victoria Terrace, at the N end of the Promenade below Constitution Hill, between Plynlymon and Alexandra Hall.
II NO.62 Marine Terrace, Dyfed
Short terrace at the N end of Marine Terrace.

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Victoria House (Forestry Commission)

A Grade II Listed Building in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion