[1] The building was commissioned as a market hall and was located in the Greenfach area, which was where the old Aberdare Village was developing at that time.

[2] It was designed in the neoclassical style, built in brick with a cement render and was completed in 1831.

After being vacant for many years, in 2012, it was sold to a developer and, in 2014, it was converted into flats, with a coffee shop on the ground floor.

[9] In January 2015, the Welsh Government Minister for Communities and Tackling Poverty, Lesley Griffiths, visited the building to see completed conversion.

[10] At the time of the disposal, a war memorial plaque, which had been unveiled in May 1922 and placed close to the entrance, was relocated to the foyer of Aberdare Library.