Photo: Stuart Wilding · CC BY-SA 2.0Aberdovey: 45% of homes built before 1919
Against 15% in the typical town, Aberdovey has 3 times the share. Cadw lists 34 buildings inside Aberdovey’s built-up area, 632 for every 10,000 residents.
Where Aberdovey’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
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.
Most of Aberdovey’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
25 entries (74%) are houses, terraces and villas. 3 are churches, chapels and priories.
Buildings are sorted by Cadw’s broad class for each building, else by words in its name; an entry named only by its address counts as a house.
34 Grade II listed buildings
Most listed buildings are in this grade, which covers buildings of special interest. Open any building to read its official list entry.
All 34 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
1 conservation area covers 31% of Aberdovey
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
34 of the 34 listed buildings stand in one.
Cadw’s conservation areas via DataMapWales. Hectares are the part of each area inside the built-up area.
More than half of Aberdovey’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1994
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
The first 5 entries were listed in 1951. 28 came in 1994. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
45% of Aberdovey’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
43% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, which added 17% 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.
Listed buildings in the places around Aberdovey
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aberdovey | 538 | 34 | 0 | — |
| Tywyn | 3,134 | 24 | 1 | B+ |
| Borth | 1,115 | 5 | 0 | B |
| Bow Street | 1,101 | 4 | 0 | C+ |
| Penrhyn-coch | 1,378 | 1 | 0 | C− |
| Machynlleth | 2,161 | 109 | 1 | A+ |
| Aberystwyth | 14,646 | 269 | 1 | A+ |
| Llanbadarn Fawr | 1,766 | 13 | 1 | B+ |
Aberdovey in brief
More of Aberdovey’s homes are old than in most places: 45% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 34 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1979. Most entries on the list, 74%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1994, when 28 of the 34 went on the list.
Questions about Aberdovey’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Aberdovey?
Cadw lists 34 buildings inside Aberdovey’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 34 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Aberdovey?
1, covering about 18 hectares of the town. The largest is Aberdyfi.
When were Aberdovey’s buildings listed?
The first in 1951; the most, 28, in 1994.
How old are the homes in Aberdovey?
45% of homes were built before 1919 and 49% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Aberdovey has no History Grade.
Listed buildings, scheduled monuments and historic parks and gardens: Cadw, © Crown copyright, via DataMapWales.
Sources: Cadw listed buildings, scheduled monuments and registered historic parks and gardens via DataMapWales, October 2026, inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary · Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties by build period (31 March 2025) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only · Cadw conservation areas via DataMapWales (October 2026). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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