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Latitude: 52.4213 / 52°25'16"N
Longitude: -4.0843 / 4°5'3"W
OS Eastings: 258358
OS Northings: 282416
OS Grid: SN583824
Mapcode National: GBR 8R.NK10
Mapcode Global: VH4FC.5D4N
Plus Code: 9C4QCWC8+G7
Entry Name: Blaenwern
Listing Date: 24 November 1987
Last Amended: 24 November 1987
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 10409
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300010409
Location: Terraced group forming the N half of Victoria Terrace, at the N end of the Promenade below Constitution Hill, between Plynlymon and Alexandra Hall.
County: Ceredigion
Community: Aberystwyth
Community: Aberystwyth
Built-Up Area: Aberystwyth
Traditional County: Cardiganshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Two houses to N end are probably contemporary with the southern end of the Terrace. Designed by J P Seddon and began after June 1868; shown on map of 1887. The remaining houses of this group were inserted in 1890; based on designs by Seddon.
Reduced Gothic 4-storey, attic and basement fronts (except to Balmoral which has no basement); 2 to the S end have been combined to form the Sea Bank Hotel. Four-window to Sea Bank, 2-window to Clarendon Hotel, Queensbridge Hotel and Blaenwern, all with bull-nosed rubble facing. Double fronted 3-window snecked rubble elevations to the end two houses (Abergeldie and Balmoral) similar to those at the southern end of the terrace; the latter has been incorporated into Alexandra Hall of Residence. All have freestone banding and most fronts colourwashed; slate roofs, brick chimney stacks and moulded eaves. Pitched roof dormers, some with ornamental timberwork; modern glazing to Queensbridge and Sea Bank Hotels, otherwise sash windows in stilted headed recesses. Third floor windows grouped alternatively in twos and threes; splayed 3-storey bay windows below flanking the entrance, cylindrical columns with annulettes and some dentil cornices; Gothic trefoil punched aprons to Queensbridge and Clarendon Hotels. Modern ground floor loggia to Sea Bank Hotel; arched entrances to others with uncarved headstops, fanlight over modern doors.
Included for group value.
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