Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
20 Market Street
Aberaeron, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 28 September 1961
- Locality
- Aberaeron
- Community
- Aberaeron
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.24259, -4.25945
- Cadw reference
- 10043
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1830 "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Forward to the street and running from the Town Hall to the Castle Hotel.
History
Early to mid C19 terrace (on ca. 1845 Tithe Map)
Exterior
Terraceof 3-storey, 3-window roughcast and scribed rendered simple classical fronts; rusticated quoins and cill bands to Nos 18 and 21. Slate roofs, wide boarded eaves and 3 rendered chimney stacks. Sash glazing, 12-pane to 1st and 2nd floors, lugged architraves with ornamental keystones to No 18, Tudor style hood moulds with keystones and foliated stops to No 21, voussoir lintels to Nos 19 and 20. Ground floor of No 18 with 2 windows as above, flanking arched entrance with keystone, recessed split 6-panel door; ground floor of No 19 has 16-pane sash window to left and splayed bay to right flanking central recess containing 2 doors, 4-panel to left, half-glazed to right with fanlights. Modern shop front to No 20 with splayed recess to centre and modern doors. Two 8-light grouped windows to No 21 flanking central arched entrance with various recessed modern doors. Scribed render left side to No 18, plain rubble right side to No 21 with low modern extension adjoining (not of special interest).
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- 19 Market StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 21 Market StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 18 Market StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Castle HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.