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
18720
Building Number
53  
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
07/05/1992  
Date of Amendment
05/08/1997  
Name of Property
Shop adjoining former Medical Hall  
Address
53 Market Street  

Location


Unitary Authority
Conwy  
Community
Abergele  
Town
Abergele  
Locality
Abergele  
Easting
294487  
Northing
377566  
Street Side
S  
Location
Located to the W of the centre of the town, almost opposite Church Street, stepping forward from the Harp PH immediately E.  

Description


Broad Class
Commercial  
Period
 

History
Dated 1827 and initialled WMW. No 51 became a Medical Hall probably at the same time as the improvements of the later C19.  

Exterior
 

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Listed as a good late Georgian style building in the town centre, with special interest for the evidence of its history in the painted advertising sign.  

Group Description
Nos 51 and 53, former Medical Hall and adjoining shop. Roughcast frontage with cement rendered dressings, quoins and sill bands. Slate roof with brick stacks. A row of 3-storey commercial buildings and dwelling in a late-Georgian style, No 51 of 4 bays, 3 windows, with a C19 shopfront in the two left bays, and a central door with overlight. No 53 is of 2 window bays, with a contemporary shopfront on the ground floor. Twelve-paned sashes to first floor and 9-pane to the attic floor. One bay of similar windows on the E return and a similar shop window on the ground floor. In the blank left bay, above the shopfront, a painted advertising panel in a shouldered frame; white plaster background and dark red/brown lettering reading: MEDICAL HALL / D.L.Morgan Ph C MPS FBOA /Dispensing Chemist/ Consulting Optician / Established 1820. Above, an exposed date stone reads W M W 1827. Morgan's shopfront, now Kitchens of Abergele, is asymmetrical, with recessed margin-glazed door and end fluted pilasters rising to the bracketed fascia. The large display window has narrow overlights with Edwardian free-style glazing with coloured lights, and the shopfront to No.53 is similar, without the recessed door. The rear is also pebbledashed between quoins and sill bands. Brick stacks.  

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