Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bridge Cottage
Llanishen, Cardiff, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Fidlas Road, Cardiff, Llanishen, designated on 22 March 1974.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 22 March 1974
- Locality
- Fidlas Road
- Town
- Cardiff
- Community
- Llanishen
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.52772, -3.18120
- Cadw reference
- 14068
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 263 Cardiff (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 110. Cardiff & Mouth of the Severn. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located immediately E of the railway viaduct on Fidlas Road, on a sharp bend.
History
C17-18 and probably a worker's cottage. Shown in its current form on the Ordnance Survey of 1875.
Exterior
Small single-storey cottage with loft. Constructed of white-washed rubble stone with steeply pitched slate roof and tall red brick end stack to R. The front faces S and has a doorway L of centre (formerly with boarded door) flanked by small window openings. Both have timber lintels and stone sills and are now boarded over. The opening to the R is slightly larger and had a sash window without glazing bars; that to L contained a casement. The E gable end has a loft window to L of stack; small rear lean-to visible to R.
Interior
No access to interior at time of inspection (20/4/01), but recorded as having a large infilled fireplace, with stone staircase beside it to loft.
Reason for designation
Listed as an increasingly rare example of a small sub-medieval worker's cottage retaining its character, now in a suburban context.
Nearby in the register
- Century Methodist ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Hill HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Hollies including former coach-house rangeDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Court School including attached chapelEducationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.