Victoria House The Alliance & Leicester Building Society is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 July 1961. Commercial building.
Victoria House The Alliance & Leicester Building Society
- WRENN ID
- muted-floor-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 21 July 1961
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- Victoria House The Alliance & Leicester Building Society, 14 Baker Street, Aberystwyth
- OS grid reference
- SN 583 817
- Coordinates
- 52.41557, -4.08451
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Victoria House, the Alliance & Leicester Building Society, is a Georgian building dating from the 18th century. It features a three-storey facade with two windows, constructed from scribed stucco and set on a plinth. The roof is modern with corrugated tiles, wide bracket eaves, and cement render chimney stacks. The small-pane sash windows have later hoodmoulds and stops, although the right-hand ground floor window lacks ornamentation.
On the first floor, there is a splayed oriel window to the right, adorned with a moulded cornice. The central entrance boasts a Georgian doorcase with a wide cornice and broad reeded pilasters, along with panelled reveals and a modern door. The right corner of the building features a splayed design with a figurehead of Queen Victoria, who is depicted carrying an orb and sceptre, positioned on a bracketed ledge above a decorative panel.
The Eastgate elevation mirrors the two-window design and has a stepped-up plinth, with a splayed oriel window on the left side.
Local climate
Victoria House The Alliance & Leicester Building Society 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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