Sea Bank Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 November 1987. A Victorian Hotel.

Sea Bank Hotel

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
24 November 1987
Type
Hotel
Period
Victorian
Address
Sea Bank Hotel, Aberystwyth
OS grid reference
SN 583 823
Coordinates
52.42108, -4.08434
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Sea Bank Hotel is a reduced Gothic building that stands four storeys high, with an attic and basement, except for the Balmoral, which has no basement. The southern end features two combined sections that form the Sea Bank Hotel. The Sea Bank Hotel has a four-window facade, while the Clarendon Hotel, Queensbridge Hotel, and Blaenwern each have a two-window facade, all constructed with bull-nosed rubble facing. The end houses, Abergeldie and Balmoral, have double fronted three-window snecked rubble elevations similar to those at the southern end of the terrace; Balmoral has been incorporated into the Alexandra Hall of Residence.

All buildings feature freestone banding, and most fronts are colourwashed. They have slate roofs, brick chimney stacks, and moulded eaves. Pitched roof dormers, some adorned with ornamental timberwork, are present, and the Queensbridge and Sea Bank Hotels have modern glazing, while the others retain sash windows set in stilted headed recesses. The third-floor windows are arranged in groups of twos and threes, and there are splayed three-storey bay windows flanking the entrance, supported by cylindrical columns with annulettes and some dentil cornices. The Queensbridge and Clarendon Hotels feature Gothic trefoil punched aprons. The Sea Bank Hotel has a modern ground floor loggia, while the other buildings have arched entrances with uncarved headstops and fanlights above modern doors.

Local climate

Sea Bank Hotel 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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