Swyddfa'r Sir
| Swyddfa'r Sir | |
|---|---|
 The then entrance to the then Register office, February 2009 | |
 | |
| Former names | Queen's Hotel (1866-1950)[1] |
| Alternative names | County Council Offices (1950-2009)[1] |
| General information | |
| Status | Unoccupied, For Sale |
| Type | Hotel/Offices |
| Architectural style | Hotel de Ville |
| Town or city | Aberystwyth |
| Country | Wales |
| Opened | 1866 |
| Owner | Ceredigion County Council |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 5 (1xbasement, 1xground floor, 3xupper floors) |
| Floor area | 51,200 square feet (4,760 m2) |
| Grounds | 0.332 acres (0.134 ha) |
| Awards and prizes | Grade II listed[1] |
| Other information | |
| Parking | Queen's Yard: 0.342 acres (0.138 ha) |
Swyddfa'r Sir is a Grade II listed former hotel, former main offices of Ceredigion County Council and former Magistrates Court building located in Aberystwyth, best known as the outside of the police station in the BBC Wales police television series Y Gwyll (Hinterland).[1]
History
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Originally constructed as a hotel, it opened on Aberystwyth's seafront in 1866 as the "Queen's Hotel".[1]
Aberystwyth Council purchased the building post World War 2, using the building from 1950 onwards. Due to the space available, during the council's period of occupation the building was additionally used for periods of time as: a police station; a dentistry; a register office for weddings; and the county archives.[1] In ???? the local circuit Magistrates Court moved into the building, using the former ballroom as their main court.
After the council moved to new build premises in 2009, the court remained until ????. Unoccupied, the council placed the premises for sale on the open market. But after it didn't sell, the council choose in June 2014 to put the building up for public auction.[1]
Y Gwyll (Hinterland)
From April 2013, the Welsh television production company Fiction Factory started filming the police television series Y Gwyll (Hinterland), starring Richard Harrington. Filmed in both Welsh and English, the Welsh version was broadcast on S4C from October 2013, the bilingual on BBC One Wales from January 2014 and BBC Four from March 2014.[2] Shot over a 124 day period in and around Aberystwyth and the surrounding Ceredigion region, the unoccupied building acted as both the series production offices, and the external face of Swyddfa'r Sir serves as the outside of the series fictional police station.[3] In light of the buildings proposed sale, the production company requested access for the second series, scheduled to be shot from September 2014.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Aberystwyth's former council office to go up for auction". BBC Wales. 30 June 2014. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
- ^ Yapp, Carl (15 December 2012). "BBC News - The Killing TV company turns to Aberystwyth police drama". BBC News. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
- ^ Moss, Stephen (30 July 2013). "Hinterland – the TV noir so good they made it twice". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 January 2014.