Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
10855
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
10/01/1991
Date of Amendment
10/01/1991
Name of Property
Town Hall
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taff
Community
Aberdare East
Town
Aberdare
Locality
Easting
300061
Northing
202633
Street Side
Location
Set in a slight slope on the corner with Green Street, opposite the end of Canon Street.
Description
Broad Class
Civil
Period
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.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value.
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