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
- winding-steeple-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1987
- Type
- Institutional building
- Period
- Victorian
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Victoria House, associated with the Forestry Commission, is a four-storey building designed in an asymmetrical Gothic style, featuring four bays, a basement, and an attic, with the right side being taller and more advanced. The exterior is painted brick, which was previously polychrome, and includes a machicolated cornice on the right and a toothed brick cill band on the third floor that extends to the left as an eaves band. There is an overall string course between the ground and first floors. The slate roofs are taller and steeper on the right side, and a polychrome brick chimney stack remains on the left. The fourth-floor windows on the right have shouldered heads, while the lower floors mostly feature bipartite windows with attached shafts that have foliage capitals. To the left, there is a two-storey splayed bay with similar windows and an openwork parapet. The porch has a gabled hood supported by muscular Gothic corbels, leading to a pointed arched entrance with modern doors. A plaque above the porch indicates that Thomas Francis Roberts, Principal of the University College of Wales from 1891 to 1919, lived here from 1904 to 1919.
The right side elevation has three bays with similar detailing and steps down towards the rear. There is a two-storey advanced bay on the left with a lean-to slate roof and swept eaves, featuring tripartite windows with pointed arches on the first floor and attached shafts. A former entrance on the right has been filled in and features a bracketed hood.
The rear of the building has been modernized with a two-storey extension.
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