The Glengower Hotel, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion

Coordinates

Latitude: 52.4205 / 52°25'13"N

Longitude: -4.0843 / 4°5'3"W

OS Eastings: 258355

OS Northings: 282324

OS Grid: SN583823

Mapcode National: GBR 8R.NR06

Mapcode Global: VH4FC.5F48

Plus Code: 9C4QCWC8+67

Entry Name: The Glengower Hotel

Listing Date: 24 November 1987

Last Amended: 24 November 1987

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 10404

Building Class: Commercial

ID on this website: 300010404

Location: Near the S end of Victoria Terrace, Victoria House adjoining to right.

County: Ceredigion

Community: Aberystwyth

Built-Up Area: Aberystwyth

Traditional County: Cardiganshire

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History

Exterior

Asymmetrical front formed from the combination of two properties; 4-storey and basement 3-window snecked rubble front with freestone banding to left; broader than but similar to those on the adjoining terrace; taller 4-storey and attic 2-window painted brickwork front to right in similar style to Victoria House. Slate roofs and cement rendered chimney stack; dentil cornice to left, machicolated cornice to right. Sash windows without glazing bars; stilted head to grouped third floor windows; 3-storey splayed bay windows with colonettes. Later splayed rubble porch to centre with arched headed windows flanking arched entrance. Tall pitched roof dormers to right with lancet windows; mostly paired lancets below and 3-storey splayed bay to left with attached colonettes and cast-iron Gothic traceried parapet. Gabled hood to porch with muscular Gothic corbels and modern doors.

Reasons for Listing

Group value.

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Other nearby listed buildings

II Victoria House (Forestry Commission)
At the S end of Victoria Terrace.
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 Police Station
Aberystwyth
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 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 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 Blaenwern
Terraced group forming the N half of Victoria Terrace, at the N end of the Promenade below Constitution Hill, between Plynlymon and Alexandra Hall.

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The Glengower Hotel

A Grade II Listed Building in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion