Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Albion House including the Welsh Wool Shop and the Albion Cake Shop
Aberaeron, Ceredigion, Wales
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
- 52.24252, -4.25900
- Cadw reference
- 9998
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 1830 "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
At the end of a short row of frontages between Market Street and Castle Lane; forward to the street.
History
Early to mid C19 (shown on ca. 1845 Tithe Map).
Exterior
Pair of 2-storey, 3-window simple classical fronts; roughcast to 1st floor and rusticated render to ground floor; overall hipped slate roof, boarded eaves, 2 cement render chimney stacks; rusticated quoins, cill band and plinth to No 11. 12-pane sash windows with ornamental keystones, to 1st floor with lugged architraves and to ground floor of No 11 with rusticated reveals and lintels; also to recessed entrance to No 11 with half-glazed door. Shop front to right with cornice, plain entablature and pilasters, 2-light shop windows; central splay containing two half-glazed doors at right angles.
Plain scribed render right end wall with sash window above panelled door.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Cegin Alban CaféCommercialunder 1 mi
- Castle HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- 21 Market StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 1 Alban SquareCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.