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
9966
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
25/09/1986
Date of Amendment
25/09/1986
Name of Property
Compton House (Including A M Garden Service and Family Video Centre
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Aberaeron
Town
Locality
Aberaeron
Easting
245978
Northing
262753
Street Side
Location
Advanced at the eastern end of the street at the junction with Alban Square and South Road, facing N diagonally across Alban Square.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
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.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value.
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