Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Compton House (Including A M Garden Service and Family Video Centre
Aberaeron, Ceredigion, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Aberaeron, Ceredigion, designated on 25 September 1986.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 25 September 1986
- Locality
- Aberaeron
- Community
- Aberaeron
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.24135, -4.25722
- Cadw reference
- 9966
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1830 map "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 177 Aberaeron (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 177 Aberaeron (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 78. Lampeter. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Advanced at the eastern end of the street at the junction with Alban Square and South Road, facing N diagonally across Alban Square.
History
Formerly the Post Office.
Mid C19 (after ca. 1845).
Exterior
2-storey and attic 3-window rendered classical front with hipped slate roof, wide bracket eaves, central attic gable to front slightly set back from main eaves level. 12-pane sashes to 1st floor in architraves. Swept out boarded cornice over later shop front to left with splayed entrance and glazed door, cornice supported to right on fluted pilasters with stepped bases, 6-panel door and sash window as above. Shop front continues round corner, cornice over full length of left side, sash windows as on front.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- 10 Albert StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 11 Albert StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 12 Albert StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Birmingham HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.