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
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
24 November 1987
Type
House
Address
Grosvenor House, 66 Marine Terrace, Aberystwyth, SY23 2AJ
OS grid reference
SN 583 819
Coordinates
52.41673, -4.08465
Source
Cadw listing

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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.

Local climate

Grosvenor 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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