42 High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Rhondda Cynon Taf local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 September 1961. Commercial/residential building. 6 related planning applications.
42 High Street
- WRENN ID
- brooding-joist-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Constituency
- Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare MP: Gerald Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 September 1961
- Type
- Commercial/residential building
- Address
- 42 High Street, Aberdare, Aberdare East, Rhondda Cynon Taff, CF44 7AA
- OS grid reference
- SO 000 026
- Coordinates
- 51.71379, -3.44767
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
42 High Street is a three-storey late Georgian building featuring a five-window rendered front. It has a plinth and a first-floor sill band, with the outer windows spaced more broadly. The building is topped with a slate roof that has tiled cresting and three narrow rendered chimney stacks. The eaves are wide and boarded, supported by deep curved brackets.
The façade includes architraves around the twelve-pane sash windows and the small pane tripartite windows located at either end of the ground floor. There is an Ionic porch at the second bay, which is supported by iron columns and features a dentil cornice, deep boarded fascia, and panelled reveals. The rear of the building is cement rendered and has small pane sash windows. The left end gable has undulating bargeboards and is scribed rendered.
Local climate
42 High Street 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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