Old homes in Aberaeron: 49% built before 1919

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Photos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.

Cadw lists buildings of special architectural or historic interest in three grades: Grade I for buildings of exceptional interest, Grade II* for particularly important buildings of more than special interest, and Grade II for buildings of special interest. Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.

Every entry on Cadw’s register of listed buildings whose point lies inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings.

Alban Square29 listed · 10 II*

Market Street19 listed

North Road15 listed

Victoria Street14 listed

Tabernacle Street12 listed

Albert Street10 listed

Belle Vue Terrace8 listed

Water Street8 listed

Masons Road7 listed

Greenland Terrace6 listed

Princes Avenue6 listed

Portland Place5 listed · 5 II*

Of the 246 entries, 168 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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Cadw’s conservation areas via DataMapWales. Hectares are the part of each area inside the built-up area.

The first 127 entries were listed in 1961. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

Two measures, each ranked against every UK town of 1,000 or more, with protected heritage counting twice as much as the age of homes. Protected heritage counts each listed building by its grade (Grade I three points, II* two, II one), each scheduled monument and battlefield two, and each registered park or garden by its grade; it is ranked both per 10,000 residents and as a total, so a village with one fine church doesn’t outrank a historic city. The second measure is the share of homes built before 1919, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records. History is a character grade: it describes the town and isn’t part of the overall grade.

38% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1973–82, which added 21% of today’s homes.

Valuation Office Agency, council tax stock of properties by build period, 31 March 2025, for the neighbourhoods (LSOAs) that make up the town, split by where their residents live. Homes with no recorded build period (0 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

For its size, Aberaeron has more listed heritage than 98% of UK towns. In all there are 246 listed buildings. Of its homes, 49% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. Alban Square alone has 29 listed buildings.

A conservation area has protected part of it since 1969. Of the whole list, 78% are houses, terraces and villas. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1961: 127 of 246. The rest is about typical: like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; and Jenkin Alban Davies (1885) and Cooke Davies (1897) were born here before 1900.