Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Park Hotel
Castle, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 25 June 1974
- Community
- Castle
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.48286, -3.17415
- Cadw reference
- 13771
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
On large site on corner of Park Place and Queen Street.
History
1884; designed by W G Habershon and J Follett Fawckner, architects, of Newport, London, and Cardiff. Cost £40,000; originally contained hotel, two public halls, coffee house and 10 shops.
Exterior
Four storey hotel building based on French Renaissance style. Bathstone ashlar with Pennant stone pilasters; ground floor in grey Forest of Dean ashlar. Slate roofs, lead central pavilion roof. Attics to end and centre bays of both Queen Street and Park Place elevations. Pedimented attic windows with separate roofs behind, end bays with high pitched roof with cresting and centre bay surmounted by squared domed pavilion roof. Queen Street elevation of 9 bays; triple window to each bay except to centre bay which is of 5 lights. Rusticated pilasters. Ashlar eaves cornice, ashlar entablature above second floor, ashlar frieze between first and second floors, ashlar panelled band above ground floor and ashlar window dressings. All windows arcaded. Top floor windows with curved heads and keystones and set in similarly headed arcading; 2nd floor windows flat headed and set in flat-headed arcades; first floor windows flat headed and set in segmental headed arcade. End and centre bays each with centre lights forming a bowed oriel window on first and second floors. Modern shop fronts on ground floor, numbered as 89-107 (odd) in Queen Street. The ground floor shop fronts in Queen Street are modern but set within original grey ashlar piers. Elevation in Park Pace is similar to elevation in Queen Street; modern entrance to "The Scrum" bar except that it retains original ground floor door and window openings. Main entrance round-headed with recent iron canopy. Broad entrance to rear car park.
Interior
Recently refurbished and modernised. Original interiors include C19 wooden staircase; function rooms eg Whitehall Suite, Princess Suite, Duchess Suite retain period detailing eg doors, decorative ceilings, plater panelling to walls etc to varying degrees.
Reason for designation
Well-preserved French Renaissance style hotel by leading local architects.
Nearby in the register
- Nos 89,91,93,95,97,99,101,103,105 & 107Commercialunder 1 mi
- 3&4 Park PalceCommercialunder 1 mi
- 5&6 Park PlaceCommercialunder 1 mi
- Brannigan's including forecourt walls and railingsRecreationalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.