Grosvenor House is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 November 1987. House.
Grosvenor House
- WRENN ID
- waning-loft-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1987
- Type
- House
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Grosvenor House is a late Georgian building with Victorian alterations, featuring a U-plan layout. It stands three stories high, with a basement and attic, and has a four-bay cement rendered front. The property was formerly a single entity, which included the right-hand cross range now occupied by the Belle Vue Royal Hotel, and it presents a symmetrical facade with advanced end pavilions.
The building has an overall plinth, with a channelled ground floor and pilaster strips at the corners, topped by a pediment treatment on the gable end. It is capped with steep slate roofs, ridge cresting, and wide bracket eaves, along with cement rendered chimney stacks. The dormers are slate hung with pitched roofs, featuring Gothic bargeboards, finials, and pendants. The windows include horned sash varieties with architraves on the three right-hand bays, while the left side has small pane tripartite sash windows leading to a full-height bay window, which is divided by pilaster strips, although some glazing bars have been removed at the ground floor.
The right-hand bays are accentuated by an overall 'portico' adorned with ornamental ironwork parapets, supported at the center by fluted Doric columns. Flanking this are Victorian single-storey casement window bays beside an Egyptian tapered doorcase, which is lugged to the top under a pediment and features half-glazed doors.
The Terrace Road elevation is slightly splayed with four bays, showcasing cement render, grooved end pilaster strips, and a rusticated ground floor with a plinth. There are modern attic skylights, and the first and second-floor windows have margins, although the second-floor right window is blocked. The central doorcase is notable for its fluted columns, which lack bases, and has Egyptian-inspired capitals, along with panelled reveals and half-glazed doors. The gable end is cement rendered, while the rear facing the courtyard is primarily rubble, with small pane sashes and voussoirs.
The interior has been altered due to its conversion into flats, but it retains a Georgian spiral staircase with a steep winding handrail.
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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2018
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