Victoria House (Forestry Commission) is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 November 1987. A Victorian Institutional building.
Victoria House (Forestry Commission)
- WRENN ID
- gilded-postern-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1987
- Type
- Institutional building
- Period
- Victorian
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Asymmetrical Gothic and 4-storey, 4 bay front with basement and attic, advanced and taller to right. Painted brick, formerly polychrome with machicolated cornice to right and 3rd floor toothed brick cill band continued to left as an eaves band. Overall string course between ground and 1st floors. Slate roofs, taller and steeper to right; polychrome brick chimney stack retained to left. Shouldered heads to right hand 4th floor windows; mostly bipartite windows below with attached shafts with foliage capitals. Two-storey splayed bay to left with similar windows and openwork parapet. Gabled hood to porch with muscular Gothic corbels to pointed arched entrance, modern doors. Plaque over the porch reads; "Thomas Francis Roberts, Principal of the University College of Wales 1891-1919 lived here 1904-1919".
Three-bay right side elevation with similar detail, stepped down towards rear. Two-storey advanced bay to left with lean-to slate roof and swept eaves, tripartite windows, pointed to 1st floor, with attached shafts. Filled in former entrance to right with bracketed hood.
Modernised rear with 2-storey extension.
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