Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Town Hall
Aberdare East, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Civil
- Date of designation
- 10 January 1991
- Town
- Aberdare
- Community
- Aberdare East
- Unitary authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.71349, -3.44794
- Cadw reference
- 10855
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 in a slight slope on the corner with Green Street, opposite the end of Canon Street.
History
Built as a Market Hall in l831 succeeded in l853 by the present market. Largely rebuilt in late Cl9 - see old photograph of l880s, when it had a pediment to the front.
Exterior
3-storey structure with cement rendered elevations; slate roof, tiled cresting and wide boarded eaves. 5-window front with architraves and sill bands to lst and 2nd floors; entablature band to ground floor over semi-circular headed windows with stopped labels. Originally open arcaded. These ground floor openings are full height (now filled in below sills) and represent the open ground floor of the former market. All the windows are T-shaped horned sashes; 6-panel door with 2 pane fanlight to 2nd bay. War Memorial plaque on front wall beside entrance. Sill bands return around the l-window gable end facing S; attic roundel over tripartite windows to lst and 2nd floors; that to the lst floor is in the form of a Venetian window. Smaller type openings to ground floor - boarded up doorway to left and window to right; the labels to these openings have lost their stops. Slightly set back beyond is a l-bay section with T-shaped casement windows; corner splayed outwards at 2nd floor (altered following l980 fire). Twin half-hipped roofs at rear.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Aberdare Carpet CompanyCommercialunder 1 mi
- M.J.RaynerCommercialunder 1 mi
- Deckers ClubRecreationalunder 1 mi
- English Methodist Chapel (including Vestry)Religious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.