The Glengower Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 November 1987. A Victorian Hotel.
The Glengower Hotel
- WRENN ID
- stark-cloister-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1987
- Type
- Hotel
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- The Glengower Hotel, Aberystwyth
- OS grid reference
- SN 583 823
- Coordinates
- 52.42053, -4.08434
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Glengower Hotel is a building that combines two properties and features an asymmetrical front. It has a four-storey and basement façade made of snecked rubble with freestone banding on the left side. This section is broader than, but similar to, the adjoining terrace. To the right, there is a taller four-storey and attic front made of painted brickwork, styled similarly to Victoria House. The building has slate roofs and a cement-rendered chimney stack, with a dentil cornice on the left and a machicolated cornice on the right.
The windows are sash types without glazing bars, featuring a stilted head on the grouped third-floor windows. There are three-storey splayed bay windows with colonettes. In the centre, there is a later splayed rubble porch with arched-headed windows flanking an arched entrance. The right side has tall pitched roof dormers with lancet windows, while the lower section mostly has paired lancets. To the left, there is a three-storey splayed bay with attached colonettes and a cast-iron Gothic traceried parapet. The porch has a gabled hood supported by muscular Gothic corbels and modern doors.
Local climate
The Glengower Hotel 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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