Radio Rentals is a Grade II listed building in the Rhondda Cynon Taf local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 January 1991. House. 17 related planning applications.

Radio Rentals

WRENN ID
kindled-chancel-stoat
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taf
Constituency
Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare MP: Gerald Jones (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
10 January 1991
Type
House
Address
Radio Rentals, 25 Victoria Square, Aberdare East, Rhondda Cynon Taff, CF44 7LB
OS grid reference
SO 003 025
Coordinates
51.71302, -3.44371
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Radio Rentals is a three-storey building featuring a three plus four window arrangement. The front is rendered up to the second floor, with rusticated detailing on the first floor and channelled work on the ground floor. It has sill bands and a plinth. The roof is slate, hipped at the right end, with bracket eaves and cement rendered chimney stacks at the ends. Quoins are present at the left end, and there are keyblocked architraves with deeply faceted keystones. The windows are horned four-pane sash types, except for the first floor center of the Caradog Arms Hotel, which has a casement window. The sill band on the second floor to the right is stepped up, and the ground floor features more pronounced keystones. There is a broad central doorway and an additional door to the left; the two middle windows have broad sills and panels below. A modern shop front for Radio Rentals is present, but it retains a 19th-century scribed end pilaster to the right. The right end has a splayed corner with similar detailing and windows, and a shop window occupies the former corner doorway. The side elevation has two windows and is similar in style, with quoins at the far end, a stepped-up first-floor sill band, and shop windows flanked by scribed pilasters.

Local climate

Radio Rentals 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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