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42 High Street

Aberdare East, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Aberdare, Aberdare East, Rhondda Cynon Taff, designated on 14 September 1961.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of 42 High Street, Aberdare East, Rhondda Cynon Taff, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation
Listed building, Grade II
Broad class
Domestic
Date of designation
14 September 1961
Town
Aberdare
Community
Aberdare East
Unitary authority
Rhondda Cynon Taff
Country
Wales
Coordinates
51.71379, -3.44766
Cadw reference
10852

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1898 · 231 Merthyr Tydfil (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Cadw's description

Set back to the left of the Constitutional Club; grassed forecourt with rubble wall.

Early to mid Cl9.

3-storey late Georgian 5-window rendered front with plinth and lst floor sill band; the outer windows are more broadly spaced. Slate roof, tiled cresting and 3 narrow rendered chimney stacks; wide boarded eaves with deep curved brackets. Architraves to l2-pane sash windows and to the small pane tripartite windows at either end on the ground floor. Ionic porch to the 2nd bay; iron columns, dentil cornice, deep boarded fascia and panelled reveals. Cement rendered rear with small pane sash windows; undulating bargeboards to the left end gable which is scribed rendered.

Group value.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Designated Historic Asset GIS Data, The Welsh Historic Environment Service (Cadw), 2026-09-07, licensed under the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Cadw, the Welsh Historic Environment Service · Open Government Licence v3.0
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