Market Shopping Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Rhondda Cynon Taf local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 August 1978. Shopping centre.
Market Shopping Centre
- WRENN ID
- eternal-landing-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Constituency
- Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare MP: Gerald Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 August 1978
- Type
- Shopping centre
- Address
- Market Shopping Centre, Aberdare East, Rhondda Cynon Taff
- OS grid reference
- SO 004 026
- Coordinates
- 51.71339, -3.44271
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Market Shopping Centre is a single-storey building with a long frontage divided into four bays, three bays, and then four bays, which steps forward and up towards the center. It is constructed from coursed rubble with granite impost bands and features hipped slate roofs at both ends. The shop windows are slightly recessed, and the stall risers have undergone some alterations. There is a blocked semi-circular headed former doorway located between the two shops on the left side. The central three bays are elevated and include semi-circular headed openings with voussoirs and small pane lunettes; these openings were likely originally full height but are now only open to the central entrance. The building also has modern shop windows and canopies. On the right end facing Duke Street, there is one shop window and one semi-circular headed doorway, which are separated by a full height narrow recess.
Local climate
Market Shopping Centre sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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