page_title: Edward Haycock Sr.
section_title: Town of Aberaeron
hierarchical_section_title: Edward Haycock Sr. / Architectural career / Town of Aberaeron
caption_attribution_description: English: County Hall, Market Street (Heol y Farchnad), Aberaeron However I have found no evidence that Aberaeron has been the county town of Cardiganshire in the past. It was nominally Cardigan, but the offices were in Aberystwyth. The little shield-shaped plaque on the left reads: neuadd y dref / town hall / 1833-45. http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/mid/sites/aberaeron/pages/bicentenary_plaques.shtml?3
context_page_description: Edward Haycock Sr. was an architect working in the West Midlands and in central and southern Wales in the late Georgian and early Victorian periods.
context_section_description: Aberaeron was founded by the Rev. Alban Thomas Jones Gwynne following an Act of Parliament in 1807,but it appears that town did not start to be laid out until about 1830. Edward Haycock was employed by Colonel A J Gwynne for supervising the building of houses and their layout in a grid plan around squares. In 1833, Samuel Lewis’s “Topographical Dictionary of Wales” records “Upwards of thirty new leases have been granted, pursuant to which several houses have been already built, and others are already in progress; a general post-office, a posting-house and an excellent hotel have been established". The Town Hall (1833–35), which later became the Cardiganshire County Hall, a typical building in Haycock’s style soon followed. The building of planned town continued until the 1850s with a house in Alban Square dated 1855. The posting house mentioned by Lewis could be the Castle and the hotel could be the Harbourmaster Hotel. Haycock achieved a consistency of style throughout the project which results in the attractive appearance of Aberaeron today.
caption: County Hall, Market Street, Aberaeron, 1833-4
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