18 Alban Square is a Grade II* listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 September 1961. House.
18 Alban Square
- WRENN ID
- stony-paling-azure
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 September 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- 18 Alban Square, Aberaeron, SA46 0DB
- OS grid reference
- SN 460 628
- Coordinates
- 52.24248, -4.25681
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
18 Alban Square is a simple classical terrace built in the 19th century, featuring two storeys and three symmetrical window fronts. Number 15 is slightly advanced and has a hipped roof. The front façades of numbers 15 and 19 are finished in scribed render, while numbers 16 to 18 are roughcast. Number 19 has end pilaster strips, and numbers 15 and 18 display rusticated quoins. All buildings have cill bands on numbers 18 and 19, and plinths on all.
The roofs are slate with wide boarded eaves, and there are rendered and rubble chimney stacks. Numbers 15 and 19 have 12-pane sash windows, except for the ground floor of number 15, which features 16-pane windows. Lugged architraves are present on numbers 15, 18, and 19, with keystones on numbers 15 and 18. Numbers 16 and 17 have voussoir lintels. The ground floor windows of numbers 16 to 19 are set in segmental arched recesses, with architraves on numbers 18 and 19.
The arched entrances of numbers 15, 18, and 19 are designed in two orders, featuring panelled architraves and keystones on numbers 15 and 18. Numbers 16 and 17 have Georgian pedimented doorcases at their arched entrances with panelled reveals. Number 15 has a three-panel door, while numbers 16 to 18 have five-pane fanlights, and number 19 boasts a six-panel door with an Art Nouveau glass fanlight.
Local climate
18 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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