The Old Bank House is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 July 1961. House. 1 related planning application.
The Old Bank House
- WRENN ID
- hushed-turret-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 21 July 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Bank House, 43 Bridge Street, Aberystwyth
- OS grid reference
- SN 582 814
- Coordinates
- 52.41267, -4.08563
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Old Bank House is a late Georgian building featuring three storeys and an attic, with a three-window painted roughcast front. The ground floor is rusticated and has a cill band. It has a slate roof with boxed bracket eaves and a brick chimney stack, along with pitched roof dormers, one of which has a sash window. The small pane sash windows on the first and second floors have margins.
A notable feature is the fine paired classical doorcase, which is offset to the right and includes a bracket cornice, an entablature frieze, and fluted pilasters. The entrance has six-panel doors and traceried fanlights.
Additionally, there is an iron emblem above the cill band that is associated with the Black Sheep Bank, which was located elsewhere on Bridge Street, but was mistakenly placed on this building.
Local climate
The Old Bank House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
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