Ceredigion Museum

Ceredigion Museum is an Edwardian/Queen Anne style building featuring bull-nosed rubble with terracotta dressings. It has a four-floor bracket cornice and a third-floor egg and dart cornice. The bays are divided by Ionic-derived pilasters that are fluted at the top floor. A central pedimented gable includes a niche at the apex containing a statue of Edward VII, along with a lunette featuring a keystone and a dated cartouche at the center. The outer bays have two-storey bowed oriels with semi-circular first floors and full-height small pane windows. The third floor has small pane sash windows and oriels. The ground floor retains half-glazed door entrances, although a modern shop front has been inserted between them. The side elevations on Bath Street and Portland Street are similarly detailed. The building is three-storey with three windows, and the central second-floor windows are topped with a pediment below an arched and keystoned head. A shallow Phillips arcade with original Art Nouveau glazing is present on Bath Street, while there is a modern shop front on Portland Street.

Inside, the upper floors retain much of the original Coliseum cinema, which has been converted for museum use. The interior features a rectangular auditorium with a two-tier gallery that has anthemion ornamented bowed fronts made by Macfarlane and Co of Glasgow. There are cast-iron columns with Corinthian capitals and swagged friezes, a ribbed ceiling with plaster roundels, and an elliptical proscenium arch.