Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
42 High Street
Aberdare East, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales
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
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Set back to the left of the Constitutional Club; grassed forecourt with rubble wall.
History
Early to mid Cl9.
Exterior
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.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- 43 High StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Aberdare Carpet CompanyCommercialunder 1 mi
- M.J.RaynerCommercialunder 1 mi
- Deckers ClubRecreationalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.