Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Radio Rentals
Aberdare East, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 10 January 1991
- Community
- Aberdare East
- Unitary authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.71302, -3.44370
- Cadw reference
- 10864
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
At the junction of Cardiff Road and Victoria Square in the centre of the town.
History
ca l900 remodelling of an earlier building. Formerly the Boot Hotel.
Exterior
3-storey 3+4 window, 3-storey, front rendered to 2nd floor, rusticated to 1st floor and channelled to ground floor; sill bands and plinth. Slate roof, hipped at right end; bracket eaves and cement rendered end chimney stacks. Quoins to left end; keyblocked architraves with deeply faceted keystones. Horned 4-pane sash windows except to 1st floor centre of the Caradog Arms Hotel where there is a casement. 2nd floor sill band to right is stepped up. More pronounced keystones to the ground floor. Broad central doorway and further door to left; the two windows to the middle have broad sills and panels below. Modern shop front (Radio Rentals) but retaining Cl9 scribed end pilaster to right. Splayed corner to right end with similar detail and windows; shop window in former corner doorway. 2-window similar side elevation with quoins to far end; 1st floor sill band stepped up and shop windows flanked by scribed pilasters.
Reason for designation
Included for group value.
Nearby in the register
- Caradog Arms HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- Pillar Box on Pavement outside Nos. 60 & 62Communicationsunder 1 mi
- War MemorialCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- The Old CourthouseCivilunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.