Its charming hipped roof had been replaced by a flat roof and the fenestration was totally out of keeping with the style of building. Once work had begun on site, extensive dry rot damage was discovered and this too has now been rectified. Using historic photographs the building has been authentically restored and given a total new lease of life. Grant work to the exterior of the property has prompted the building owner to totally refurbish the whole of the interior on 4 floors. Signage Fforest Signs. THI Grant Date:around 1850
Listed building. This former hotel is situated on the main street leading from the river past the Shire Hall to the town centre. Since work has been carried out under the THI scheme this building has regained its place as a landmark building. Its attractive Georgian architectural features have been restored and reinstated where lost. Its authentic historic colour scheme has attracted a great deal of interest and admiration. A new sympathetic disabled user friendly ramp and steps have been constructed to the main entrance to the building and this has earned considerable praise from the Local Disability Action Group. Signage Fforest Signs. THI grant Date:around 1790
A WDA Town Improvement grant encouraged the owners of the adjacent store, Seconds Ahead, to purchase this property, which had remained vacant for over 25 years. TIG Grant Date:1950
Situated in terraced row on street line. Early C19 house, one of a pair, rubble stone with imitation slate roof and south end brick stack. Two storeys, double fronted with paired brackets to deep flat eaves. 12-pane sashes with cambered brick heads and slate sills, except to ground floor left which has modern plate glass shopwindow. Centre 6-panel door with traceried narrow overlight in Regency-style reeded dooorcase with shelf hood on brackets. Panelling below hood. Date:Early C19
Mount Zion Baptist Chapel (inc. forecourt railings and gatepiers)
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Situated set back in railed enclosure. 1878-80 English Baptist chapel by George Morgan of Carmarthen. Red brick with moulded and pressed brick decorative details and some Bath stone dressings, since painted. Banded slate roofs. Four-window chapel with end facade in simplified Romanesque style, the facade made tripartite with narrow projecting centrepiece and flanks gabled to sides. Coped gables and iron finials. Crested ridge tiles. Centrepiece has big arched window with stilted arched head over paired doors in projecting gabled Bath stone doorcase. Bands of moulded or pressed bricks below sill and at impost level of main window. Pierced roundel in coped gable. Doorcase has 3 piers with shouldered caps, the centre pier cut back for attached column shaft, carved vine-leaf lunette in tympanum with arch voussoirs decorated with fleur-de-lys. Window over is painted ashlar with attached shaft between two arched lights, carved roundel in arch head with fleur-de-lys voussoirs. Ashlar plinth and band of black brick above continued around chapel. Date:1878-1880
Situated at eastern end of terraced row, adjoining Police Station. Circa 1870 house and office in squared stone with some banding in red brick and blue lias. Stone end stacks, truncated to left, that to right exceptionally broad, stepped with 10 short shafts, vertical incisions between shafts. Slate roof. Date:Circa 1870
Situated opposite Mount Zion Chapel, at west end of terraced row. Circa 1870 house and shop in squared stone with some banding in red brick and blue lias, slate roof and stone end stacks, that to east large, 5-shaft with vertical incisions between shafts. Date:Circa 1870
Situated at west end of terraced row, on corner of Lower Mwldan. Late C18 or early C19 house, stucco with imitation slate roof and brick east end stack. Extensive exterior and interior work. Roof stripped, timbers replaced, replace with Welsh slate, cement and sand render hacked off and replaced with lime render,chimmney taken down and replace, internal original features laid bare or restored, cast iron rainwater goods, lime wash, windows overhauled, THI grant Date:Late C18/early C19
Situated at west end of terraced row, on street line. Early to mid C19 row of 3 houses, stuccoed with slate roofs and stone or brick stacks. Three storeys, No 20 2-window, the other 2 one-window. Date:Early to mid C19
Situated on street line in terraced row Nos 20-26 (consec). Early C19, 2 houses, whitewashed rubble stone with slate roofs and brick end stacks. This property benefitted from: replaced bay window, new doors and door surrounds, canopy, new flashings,repointing in lime and new lime wash.THI grant Date:Early C19
Situated on street line, penultimate building to east end of street. Early C19 pair of houses in rubble stone banded in blue lias with imitation slate roof and end brick stacks. Date:Early C19
Situated on north east corner of Quay Street. Late C18 or early C19 house in rubble stone banded in blue lias stone, with imitation slate roof and modern brick end stacks. This property benefitted from: new chimmneys, new windows, doors and other exterior improvements. THI grant Date:Late C18 or early C19
Situated on street line, adjoining Manchester House, Bridge Street. Early C19 house altered in later C19, stucco on rubble stone, 3-storey, double fronted with imitation slate roof and stone end stacks. Date:Early C19
Situated on street line towards west end of street. 1886-7. Two pairs of houses in red brick with slate roofs and brick stacks, the pairs similar but not identical. Date:1886-7
Situated at north boundary of community area, some 2.25km towards Gwbert from Cardigan. Circa 1820-40 house in squared blue lias stone with slate roof, coped gables and stone end stacks. Formal 3-window front, 2-storeys with centre attic pediment. Date:1820-40
Situated adjoining Post Office on north side. Circa 1870-80 small commercial premises, 2 storeys and attic, 2-window range, in red brick with slate roofs and brick end stacks. Two steep front gables with painted timber bargeboards and triangular headed sash-windows with nogged brick heads, 2 first floor 4-pane sashes with nogged cambered heads and moulded brick cornice under gables. Date:1870-80
Situated in continuous terraced row, 2 buildings up from Post Office. Early C19 house, blue lias stone with slate roof and brick end stacks. Three-storey, 3-window range with paired brackets to eaves, matching No 29 adjoining. Three 9-pane hornless sashes to second floor, cambered brick heads; Three 12-pane hornless sashes to first floor with stucco that formerly covered facade left around each window; and ground floor mid C20 shop front with door to left. Shopfront projects and is full-width. Date:Early C19
Situated on street line immediately north of Black Lion Hotel. Early C19, blue lias rubble stone with slate roof, one truncated brick ridge stack to right and one red brick north end stack. Three-storey. 3-window. 1 plus 2, with first floor 12-pane sashes, hornless, with slate sills and brick heads and similar 6-pane windows above. Flat eaves with paired brackets. Ground floor retains original carriage arch into Black Lion Yard, right, blue lias voussoirs to broad depressed arch, cut into brickwork of Black Lion. The rest has mid C20 black tiled shopfronts, 3 narrow frontages. Two rear wings. Date:Early C19
Situated on street line opposite Eben's Lane. Later c18 inn, red brick, Flemish bond with stucco cornice and parapet and slate roof with brick end stacks. Three-storey, 5 window range of sashes with cambered brick heads, 6-pane to second floor, 12-pane to first floor, ground floor sashes replaced by shallow 12-pane C20 bow windows. Centre door with traceried overlight. Slate sills except to ground floor that has C20 brick sills. Door is in C20 rebuilt timber classical porch of 2 Roman Doric columns, the shafts untapered and without bases, pilaster responds, entablature with triglyphs over columns and flat cornice. Two lead downpipes with embossed lions on rainwater heads. Date:
Grant work includes: restoration of shop window and door to traditional types, change of rainwater goods from UPVC to cast iron, repair of chimney and flashings, reinstatement of traditional upper floor windows, installation of traditional awning, painting of walls, windows and doors. New sign by by Fforest Signs. Date:Late C19
Situated on street line, opposite the Shire Hall. Late C18 or early C19 house, altered in later C19 as shop, stucco with slate roof and brick end stacks. Three storeys and attic, 3-window range but probably originally 5-window to match upper floor. Date:Late C18/early C19
Situated at south end of High Street, projecting forward from line of adjoining buildings. Founded 1764 but possibly not completed until 1797, altered 1827-30 by David Evans of Cardigan, possibly by addition of High Street front, though this has 1844 painted date on clock. Repaired in 1875. Built for the assize courts, held there until 1889, with corn market on lower floor, subsequently a warehouse, now a furniture shop. Date:1764
Circa 1880 substantial house, stucco with hipped slate eaves roof to main part and apex brick corniced stack. Three storeys and attic, one-window main front and recessed wing to left. Said to have been built for Edgar Rees, grocer. Main front has rusticated ground floor, cornice above, then 3-bay upper floors with narrow blank panels each side of centre window bay. Cornice right across at first floor level and the 4 piers have paired brackets under eaves. First floor big canted oriel with cornices carried around base and head, plate glass sashes and cast-iron floral railing above, in front of second floor tripartite sash. Big stucco eaves dormer, arch-headed. Ground floor has symmetrical shop front with recessed doors, remodelled in C20 but in original frame. Stucco returns across plain side wall to Market Lane for half depth, then rubble stone with ashlar window frames. Date:Ca 1880
C18 house, stucco fronted and altered possibly in conversion for National Provincial Bank ca1890, slate roof and modern brick end stacks. Two and a half storeys, 5-window range, 3 bays and 2 bays. Overhanging eaves with paired brackets, broken for 3 hornless 12-pane sashes, half-dormers with flat roofs. First floor has 5 ca1890 4-pane sashes in slim raised surrounds, grouped 3 to left and 2 to right and not aligned with windows above. Ground floor 5 bays, 3 windows, main door to bank and door to upper floors framed in row of pilasters with swollen capitals and entablature. In front of main door, in wider bay, entablature is broken forward and carried on 2 matching square piers. Plate glass sashes to windows, modern main door and overlight and 4-panel door with overlight in final bay. Date:C18
Situated on south east corner of Eben's Lane. Early to mid C19 house and shop, in blue lias ashlar with slate eaves roof and red brick end stacks. Three-storey, 3-window range of sashes with cambered heads, stone voussoirs and slate sills. Six-pane upper windows and 12-pane to first floor, but centre window each floor is blocked and first floor right has ca1900 square timber oriel. Ground floor has two C20 shopfronts. Date:Early to mid C19
Situated on north east corner of Eben's Lane. Built in 1914 for the Midland Bank. Portland stone with green slate recessed mansard roof and tall stone-corniced red brick north and east end stacks. One storey and attic, in a French C18 style. Date:1914
Situated on street line towards north end of High Street. 1888-9 bank, built for Brecon Old Bank by George Morgan and Son of Carmarthen. Red brick and Bath stone large 3-storey, 2-window range with slate roof and no stacks. Ground floor is ashlar-fronted with corniced fascia right across, between paired brackets; 7-bay range of doors and windows each with moulded depressed-arched head and 2-light mullioned overlight, the lights moulded with curved upper angles and stained glass. Modern doors and windows reversing the original arrangement. Centre door has plain ashlar tympanum inscribed 'Established 1782 Bank'. Date:1888-9
Stanley House (inc. garden wall, gatepiers and gate)
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Situated set back from road adjoining Highbury Hotel. Circa 1880 villa, possibly including part of former west wing of John Nash's 1793-7 Cardigan Gaol. Stucco, 2 storeys and attic with slate roof and stone end stack. Three-window range with moulded eaves cornice. Two eaves dormers with arched small-paned sashes and bargeboarded gables. Main front has arched windows, broader to ground floor with marginal glazing bars, stucco hoodmoulds, and painted slate sills. Arched centre door with traceried fanlight in 2-column timber porch with arched head and cornice. Two-panel door with arched panels. Stucco quoins. Garden enclosed by rubble wall with slate coping and spearhead iron rails. Two stone gatepiers with cross-gabled caps. Pedestrian gate in iron at right. TIG Grant Date:Ca 1880
Situated set back from road adjoining Stanley House. 1898 pair of villas built in the shell of the central block of the former Cardigan Gaol of 1793-7 by John Nash. In 1881 the gaol was converted to a police station by J Szlumper. The old gaol had a projecting pedimented frontispiece which seems to have been cut back to the main block, of which the hipped slate roof survives and a new double-gabled front put on for 2 villas, named Highbury and Brooklands. Three-storey and attic, with bargeboard gables, late C20 conservatory to ground floors and altered big first floor oriels with flower balconies under large second floor windows, also with late C20 glazing. Gothic attic lights. Date:1898
Situated at south end of Victoria Gardens, in angle between North Road and slip-road to Gwbert Road. 1923 War Memorial in grey granite, a reduced version of the Cenotaph, Whitehall, London. Two wide granite steps, then low 2-stage plinth, the upper stage with '1914-1918' in raised numerals, under high base with bronze name plaques and 'The Glorious Dead' incised above. Set-back stage above with laurel wreath in relief, as on the Cenotaph, then 3 receding small steps to top 'altar' with rebated corners, shallow ridged cap and incised rosette on front. Date:1923
Situated in centre of triangular public garden immediately north of War Memorial. 1897 bandstand, cast-iron and sheet-metal on yellow-brick and slate base. Small scale, octagonal with 3 steps up on east side. Eight thin cast iron columns carring ornate scrolled spandrel brackets, and with mid-height cast-iron hand-rail over sheet-metal panels. Overhanging sheet-metal tent roof with rolled-lead ridges and cast iron ornate finial. Date:1897
Situated immediately east of Napier Street. Circa 1875-80 terrace of 5 houses, built and probably designed by William Woodward, builder and proprietor of the Cardigan brickworks. Red brick with extensive dressings in moulded or pressed brick, centre house is gabled and advanced, one-window with door to left, the rest 2-window and all 2 storeys. Upper windows are 4-pane sashes with notched brick segmental heads, slate sills and painted wood boards with incised crosses over window heads. Ground floors each have a canted bay with hipped metal clad roofs, but centre house has 2-storey bay in centre and door to left. Doors are all 2-panel, with notched brick segmental pointed arches and carved heads to varied designs as keystones. Centre house has bargeboarded gable and small pointed attic light. Red brick ridge stacks. Date:Ca 1875-80
Situated on street line in terraced row. Early to mid C19, 2 pairs of large 3-storey, 2-window houses built as single terrace, brown sandstone banded in blue lias, with slate roof and matching south end stone stack. North end stack rebuilt in brick. Each pair has 4-window range of close spaced sashes with cambered painted voussoirs and painted slate sills, 6-pace square upper windows and 12-pane first floor windows. Ground floor originally had paired centre doors with lozenge patterned overlights, incised decoration to piers and paired cornices on scrolled brackets. Date:Early to mid C19
Situated set back in narrow forecourt, opposite William Street. 1832 Calvinistic Methodist chapel, altered 1864 and refronted 1902, this front simplified in 1986 restoration. The body of the chapel of 1832 survives, originally a lateral front with 2 long centre windows, outer pedimented doors and arched windows over, but in 1902 was radically altered with big projecting central organ chamber, franking porches and new stucco cladding. In 1986 the roof line was simplified by removal of cornice each side and pediments above, the lowering of the pediment of centrepiece and removal of a steep French-style slate roof behind the pediment. Date:1832
Situated on west side of Mwldan River south east of farmhouse. Later C19 farm buildings in rubble stone with slate roofs, L-plan single storey, the principal feature being a steep-roofed cow-house cross-gabled to main range with long hipped roof ventilator, an unusual C19 farm-building type for West Wales. The rear wall of cow-house has windows with brick cambered heads and gable recess, possibly for missing plaque. Gable wall is flush with low ranges each side, that to north, of earlier build, has brick-headed window, door, window then ridge stack and similar window, door, window beyond, the doors blocked. Range to south of cow-house is L-plan, roof hipped at angle, rear wall door and window with cambered brick heads, matching cow-house. South return wall is obscured. Date:Later C19
Road bridge over Teifi between Castle Street, Bridgend, and Bridge Street.Probably early C18 road bridge, widened 1872-3. Blue lias rubble stone 5-arch bridge with recessed cut-stone voussoirs to arches, cutwaters on both sides, those on west obscured in 1872-3 widening. On east side cutwaters are carried up full height to form pedestrian refuges, except for one to south of centre which is capped short with plaque above 'This arch was built in the year 1726 W Jones', but plaque may be reset as cutwater is shown full height in mid C18 prints. A small flood arch is at south end. Date:Early C18
Situated on south side of lane, also known as Green Street, approaching the Castle from Bridge Street. Early to mid C19 house in blue lias rubble stone with slate eaves roof and brick end stacks. Date:Early to mid C19
Situated on promontory overlooking Cardigan Bridge. C13 castle remains, probably mostly dating from a rebuilding of ca1244-54 under Robert Waleran, though the castle was in existence in 1136, was rebuilt in stone under the Lord Rhys in 1171 and repaired ca1204 and in 1220s. Date:Early C12
Situated in prominent but isolated setting on east bank of Teifi estuary, some 1.5km north north west of Cardigan, reached by narrow lane from Greenfield Row. Early C19 small country house, carefully restored 1985-9. Colour-washed roughcast or rubble stone walls, hipped slate roofs with deep bracketed eaves cornice and 3 stone end stacks. Date:Early C19
Situated at end of short lane off Bridge Street, formerly called Green Street. Circa 1828 formal entrance gates, of 4 big panelled blue lias piers, corniced, with stepped caps and cast-iron urns, the piers set at corners of square and linked each side by semi-circular dwarf wall with spearhead railings. Outer gatepiers have wrought iron paired gates, possibly moved, as they are hung on added stuccoed inner piers. Date:Circa 1828
Situated within walls of Cardigan Castle. 1827 house by David Evans for Arthur Jones, High Sheriff, possibly including parts of a house said to have been under construction for J Bowen ca1808-10 (Meyrick) and incorporating to rear a round C13 tower of Cardigan Castle. Stucco fronted villa with hipped deep eaved slate roof and stone rear stacks, the rest of rubble stone, banded in blue lias slate on prominent east elevations, hipped slate roofs and stone stacks. Date:Early C19
Situated off The Strand by rear entrance drive to Castle Green House. Circa 1828 range of outbuildings in rubble stone with slate roofs. L-plan, 2-storey with cut blue lias stone voussoirs to openings. West range is gable ended to street with 3-window range, first floor window, window and loading door, ground floor door, window and door. Derelict interior with collar truss roof. Slightly recessed bay to right with superimposed cambered-head openings, linking to north range, also 3-window, but roof is lean-to against cliff-face behind. Smaller windows above with slate sills, centre window part blocked, ground floor 3 doors, left door part blocked, and small square window to right. Date:Circa 1828
Situated within grounds of Castle Green House between rear of 43 St Mary's Street and entrance to stable court from The Strand. C19 retaining wall with raking castellations along east side of steep rear access drive. Date:C19
This building benefitted from: Replacement of defective timbers, lintols, windows and door. Renovation of masonary, including retaining wall and railings. TIG Grant. Date:Late C18
Bridge Street front has left bay of double width to allow for 2-storey canted bay window with tripartite sash above, upper giant pilasters with cornice and deep plain frieze under eaves. Plate glass sashes with painted slate sills and moulded band between floors, except in left bay where bay window has plain hipped roof. Similar one-window range to canted north west angle. Ground floor has channelled rustication to left angle pier and flanking adjoining bay window, then centre door between pilasters, shopfront to right, with matching pilaster to right and similar pilaster framing to shopwindow in canted angle. Overall entablature with moulded cornice, carried around the bay window. Centre panelled door with overlight. Shopfront has plate glass windows with deeply recessed centre door with overlight. Plainer 4-window front to Quay Street. Shop interior has T-plan pitch-pine stair, single flight up to double flight return. Turned balusters. Group value. Signs by fforest-signs.co.uk. THI Grant Date:1884-5
Stonework repointed in lime mortar to front and side, chimney taken down and restored, leadwork and flashings improved, cast iron rainwater goods, roof timbers repaired or replaced, roofs re-felted and re-slated in natural Welsh slate, new conservation roof lights, windows and door frames refurbished, new sash windows, new shop fronts, lime washed gable, new shop signs, new access ramp.
Known as Glenroy House and Dudley House. Pair of houses on street line, between Castle Chambers and Manchester House. Earlier C19 pair of houses in blue lias rubble stone with imitation slate roof and brick end stacks. Date:Early C19
Situated at west end of row of buildings overlooking quay. Mid C19 house in coursed squared blue lias stone with slate roof and stone end stacks. Two storeys and attic plus basement, 3-window range of 12-pane hornless sashes with cambered stone voussoirs and slate sills. Centre door reached up 6 stone steps, 6-panel door with overlight and similar cambered stone head. Basement window to right and door to left with similar stone heads. One off-centre C20 dormer, flat with 9-pane window. Date:Mid C19
Situated at right angles to river, across access lane. 1830 warehouse (dated 1830 J Griffiths) in blue lias rubble stone with corrugated asbestos roof and no stacks. Three-storey, 4-window range. West front has 4 top floor 4-pane casements with slate sills, the third one a former loading door but altered to match and 4 first floor openings with cambered brick heads, 4-pane casements except third which is loading door. Plaque between second window and door. Slate sills. Ground floor has blocked window to left, then through passage with timber lintel, then broad opening with later iron lintel and C20 boarded infill, then broad cambered brick headed doorway, not aligned and fifth opening to right, also with cambered brick head. THI grant Date:1830
Situated between rear of No 42 Saint Mary's Street and service drive to Castle Green House. Early C20 boundary wall in rubble stone with back-sloping crenellation, some 3m to 4m high, running from rear of No 42 Saint Mary's Street along Carrier's Lane and curving round into The Strand to terminate at service drive entry. Date:Early C20
Situated to rear of No 40 Saint Mary's Street. 1837 former English Congregational Chapel, sold ca 1879 and used until 1991 as printing house of Cardigan and Tivyside Advertiser. The first Independent congregation in Cardigan was established in a loft behind No 39 St Mary's Street in 1799. In 1836, Thomas Lloyd came to Cardigan to set up the first foundry in the Mwldan bringing English-speaking workmen from Pembrokeshire. He leased Nos 39 and 40 Saint Mary's Street and built the Chapel 1837, the site being empty on 1834 map. Building was sold 1880 after the new Hope Chapel, Pendre, was built and briefly used as a Temperance Hall, before becoming part of the newspaper premises. Date:1837
Situated at south end of Cardigan Bridge. Marked on 1834 map. Daniel Evans, architect of Bethania Chapel, owned the inn and died here 1852. He may have designed it. Early C19 inn, blue lias squared stone with slate roof and brick side wall stacks. Gable facade to street of two storeys and attic, 3-window range. Date:Early C19
Grant work included: stabilising structure with steel frame, complete replacement of windows and loading doors, roof replacement and reinstallation of chimney, removal of decayed stonework and replacement, raking out of concrete pointing and replace with lime mortar, lime scree on ground floor and rainwater goods. Date:Early to mid C19
Prominently sited on quayside some 5Om west of Cardigan Bridge, on wharf known as Teifi Wharf or Mercantile Wharf. 1745 warehouse thoroughly remodelled in mid C19, now flats. Blue lias rubble stone with slate roof and stone end stacks. Four-storey 5-window range, C20 hardwood windows with cambered brick heads. Windows are 2-light to lower floors. 3-light to upper floors and centre windows replace loading doors. Top floor openings have been raised through eaves with small gables. East end wall has 3-storey stone lean-to, with ground floor door and plaque 'This granary was erected by David Parry Esq of Noyadd in Cardiganshire March ye 26 1745'; outside steps to left to first floor entry and steps continued within to second floor. Second floor window to right. Main range has east end third floor window. Date:1745
Situated in large churchyard, with principal approach from Pontycleifion. History: C12 origins, C15, C18 and C19 parish church in blue lias stone, ashlar for west tower, chancel and organ chamber, rubble for nave. Slate roofs, hipped to chancel east end. West tower, broad aisleless nave with south porch and embattled chancel with north organ chamber and low vestry. Nave is medieval but substantially rebuilt according to plaque in porch in 1702-3. Windows, much renewed in later restorations, are of flat-headed mullioned type with arch-headed lights typical of C17 and south door has post Reformation segmental-pointed head. Another plaque in porch of 1639 may refer to alterations or to a new porch. Present porch is early C20, Gothic, with carved heads of Archbishop Davidson and Bishop Owen. Tower fell in 1705, was rebuilt up to 40 ft in 1711 and completed in 1748, and is large with minimal Gothic detail, single bell-openings and low west door. Big diagonal stepped buttresses to front angles. North east stair tower. Chancel is of exceptional quality for West Wales, C15, Perp. style, with ashlar traceried 3-light windows, 3-bay, buttressed, embattled and pinnacled (most of pinnacles taken down) with north east corner stair. North side has High Victorian organ chamber of 1877, extensively dressed in red brick and low flat-roofed vestry probably of ca 1926. One original window is lost to organ chamber. Date:C12
Situated at east end of Church Street, giving access to south west corner of churchyard. Early C19 tall gatepiers in blue lias ashlar, corniced with stepped caps and cast-iron urns. Piers are panelled. Iron gates with top rails ramped down, quatrefoil middle rail and dog-bars. Date:Early C19
Situated at southern end of street, on street-line. 1870-1 Independent Chapel, by Reverend T Thomas of Llandore (Thomas Glandwr), with house and vestry behind added 1885 by D Davies, Penrhiwllan. Chapel has rock-faced blue lias pedimental front with stucco dressings and arch-headed windows. Long paired windows each side, triplet to centre, all with pilaster jambs, moulded heads and keystones. Centre window of triplet is wider. Sill band under side windows interrupted by stucco doorcase, arched with arched hood between panelled pedestals carried on console brackets. Pedestals have concave square finials. Paired arch-headed doors and crescent overlight. Banded slate roof, 2-storey coursed rubble side walls, 4 windows, the upper ones arched. Forecourt enclosed by cast-iron railings, of intersecting oval pattern. Adjoining 2-storey, 3-window house, stuccoed with cambered headed openings and centre bargeboard gable. Slate roof, brick end stacks. Vestry and Sunday School behind. Date:1870-71
This building has undergone extensive external and internal refurbishment as well as structural strengthening. Further internal work will be carried out in 2007/8 which will make the building completely usable again, including disabled access to all floors.
Situated at centre of town, at intersection of High Street, Pendre and Priory Street. 1858-60 civic buildings, originally Guildhall, Corn Exchange, Grammar School, News-room, Corn Store and Markets, by R J Withers (1823-94) in Ruskinian Gothic style, the first of their kind in Britain. Coursed blue lias stone with some red brick banding and ashlar dressings, the ashlar since painted white, and banded slate roofs. Gothic of mixed Italian and North European derivation, following Ruskinian precepts in structural colour and the integrity of the wall-face maintained by minimal moulding and window tracery set flush. Five-bay 2 storey main hall with unmoulded polychrome Gothic arcade below to former Corn Exchange, now library, and tall mullion-and-transom stone windows above with linked pointed hoodmoulds. Coved ashlar eaves cornice with carved bosses and steep hipped roof with ornamental iron cresting. Adjoining to left, recessed entrance with pointed doorway, tall stair light and top clock turret, lead-clad with pyramid spire, added 1892 (R Thomas of Cardigan). To left, crossing with single window below and 2 windows above, pointed red brick relieving arches and timber mullion-and-transom windows. Coped gable. Two-bay side elevation to College Lane with stone centre side-wall stack. Rear of Guildhall has ground floor 5-bay arcade and 2 windows above with centre side-wall stack. Behind crosswing, lower range, 2-storey to College Lane, one to rear court, slightly projected with roof hipped forward. Rear to court has hipped gable to right of former Corn Store. Early C19 Russian canon at SE corner of Guildhall. Date:1858-60
Prominently situated on corner of Chancery Lane. Late Cl8 or early Cl9 gentry house, now offices, in coursed blue lias stone inscribed as ashlar, with slate roof and rebuilt red brick end stacks. Two storeys and attic, 4-window range of 12-pane sashes with cut stone voussoirs and slate sills and no door to main front, moulded timber modillion cornice and central pediment with matching raking cornices and tripartite small-paned lunette.
Facade is built against line of the slope and shallow terrace in front, blocking original basement windows, has spearhead iron railings. West end wall has two C20 attic windows. North west rear wing, 2-storey with red brick north end stack, 2-window range. Ground floor has 6-panel door, traceried overlight and timber classical porch or 2 oddly proportioned columns, pilaster responds, triglyph frieze and cornice with similar modillion brackets to main house cornice. Two first floor windows, but only the one over the door original. Small addition beyond, 2-storey with brick north end stack and first floor 16-pane sash, ground floor door and 18-pane fixed shop-window. Cemented window heads. Basement storey on inner front. Rear courtyard, 3-storey, with arched large stair-light in centre of rear wall and rubble stone wings each side.
Interior: Open-well stair with plain stick balusters and ramped handrail. Six-panel doors, shutters to ground floor rooms and mid Cl9 marble fireplaces to ground floor east and west rooms.
The best surviving of the townhouses built by gentry of Teifiside in Cardigan and said to have been built for Brigstockes of Blaenpant. Marked on Wood's 1834 map of Cardigan as owned by Lewis Evans Esq., solicitor and Town Clerk. Group value. This building benefitted from a grant that; stripped roof and replaced slates, pointing removed and replaced with lime pointing, removed bricks and replaced with stone to match adjoining wall, removed defective windows and replaced, door removed and replaced, chimneys demolished and repalced, facias refurbished or replaced, cast iron rainwater goods installed. Signage Fforest Signs. THI grant Date:Late C18 or early C19
Attached to No 7 and set back from street line. C19 House, probably service wing to No 7 to which it is attached. Rubble stone with inscribed pointing as on No 7, imitation slate roof, and brick stack at east end. Date:C19
