8 Alban Square is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 September 1961. House. 1 related planning application.
8 Alban Square
- WRENN ID
- graven-shingle-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 September 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- 8 Alban Square, Aberaeron, SA46 0AD
- OS grid reference
- SN 459 629
- Coordinates
- 52.24304, -4.25795
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
8 Alban Square is a simple classical building dating from the 19th century. It is two stories high with a three-window facade that is colourwashed, rendered, and roughcast, featuring rusticated quoins. The building has advanced hipped roof end pavilions, slate roofs, and ridge dressing to No 4. It also has wide boarded eaves and a total of eight rendered and one rubble chimney stacks.
The sash windows, which have glazing bars, are present on the first floors, except for Nos 3 to 5. Some of these windows feature lugged architraves and ornamental keystones. No 1 has a full-width shop front supported by faceted pilasters, a segmental arched window recess, and a bay shop front beside the entrance to No 2. Nos 3 and 4 also have bay shop fronts, while Nos 5, 6, and 7 have segmental arched window recesses, with the latter partially concealed. No 8 has a modern shop front. The entrances are recessed, with half-glazed and panelled doors.
The left end wall of No 1 is plain roughcast and has a cross range extending to the rear, while the right end wall of No 8 is finished in plain scribed render and features a hipped roof extension.
Local climate
8 Alban Square sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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