Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
36 High Street
Cardigan, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 14 April 1992
- Community
- Cardigan
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.08219, -4.66109
- Cadw reference
- 10486
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on south west corner of Saint Mary's Street.
No 35 is marked on O.S. map as Noá52áSaint Mary's Street.
History
Later C19
Exterior
Pair of houses with shops, stucco with slate roofs and big red brick cross-axial stack. Three storeys and attic, 2-window range to each street and recessed curved one-window north west angle. Flat bracketed eaves and similar broad pediments each facade with paired 4-pane sashes. Second floor 9-pane sashes and first floor 12-pane sashes with slate sills and moulded stucco hoods. Windows on curved corner are curved. Band between floors. Ground floor has 2 shopwindows each facade, plate glass with rusticated jambs. Band above.
High Street has door to No 36 to right, with overlight. Corner has recessed double doors and overlight. Saint Mary's Street front has fine 6-panel door to left with big traceried overlight and corniced doorcase with fluted pilasters and panelled reveals. One additional 12-pane sash to first floor over door.
Glazing bar sashes to first and second floor of No 36 have been replaced in aluminium, the rest are unaltered.
Reason for designation
Listed as an imposing corner building of unusual design.
Nearby in the register
- 35 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 37 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- Ty MawrCommercialunder 1 mi
- The Old Shire HallCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.