Barclays Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 November 1987. Telephone kiosk. 3 related planning applications.
Barclays Bank
- WRENN ID
- tired-lime-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1987
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- Address
- Barclays Bank, 26 Terrace Road, Aberystwyth, E14 5HP
- OS grid reference
- SN 584 817
- Coordinates
- 52.41543, -4.08313
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Barclays Bank is a three-storey building designed in the Italianate Mannerist style. It features ashlar elevations and a channelled granite ground floor, with a plinth and rusticated pilaster strips. The front facing Terrace Road has five windows, while there is one window on the corner and three windows on North Parade. The building has a parapet that is balustraded at the corner, topped with urn finials above a modillion cornice and a bolection moulded entablature.
On the corner, there are giant order Ionic columns in antis with swagged capitals, supporting a balustraded balcony on the first floor above an arched entrance that has convex steps and panelled pediments. The pediments are triangular and segmental on the first floor, featuring keystoned lintels and fluted aprons, with a scrolled pediment above the corner window. The second floor has horned sash windows, while the first floor features cross-frame windows. There are convex balconies flanking the central window on the Terrace Road side.
The ground-floor openings are arched but have modern windows, and there is an overall modern fascia below the cornice that conceals original black lettering. The interior has been modernised.
Local climate
Barclays Bank 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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