Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ancorfa
Aberaeron, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 25 September 1986
- Locality
- Aberaeron
- Community
- Aberaeron
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.24385, -4.25875
- Cadw reference
- 10114
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
Continuous row, forward to the street at the NW end, between the playing field and the corner with Victoria Street (NW side).
History
Mid to late C19 (after ca 1845
Exterior
Group of 4 simple classical 2-storey fronts; the outer two roughcast and 3-window wide; the inner two, scribed render and 2-window wide. Slate roofs (Ancorfa hipped at right end), boxed eaves, 3 rendered and 1 brick stacks. Rusticated quoins to Ancorfa, cill bands to others. Sash windows of various types with lugged architraves and ornamental keystones to the ground floor. Lugged architraves with keystones to outer doorways, panelled architraves to inner ones, modern doors throughout. Plain roughcast left end and scribed render right end adjoining "Dolwen", Victoria Street.
Reason for designation
Included for group value.
Nearby in the register
- GraigDomesticunder 1 mi
- DolwenDomesticunder 1 mi
- AnwylfanDomesticunder 1 mi
- BelmontDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.