Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Oz Bar
Castle, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 26 March 1976
- Community
- Castle
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.47941, -3.17919
- Cadw reference
- 14074
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 corner with Guildhall Place.
History
Former bank. Later C19. Possibly 1881-2 and by W D Blessley, architect.
Exterior
Three storey stuccoed corner building. Cornices and parapet; steeply-pitched hipped slate roof, tall stack to L. St Mary Street front with 2 pairs of round-headed sash windows with balustrades on 2nd floor (relif of figure with harp between). Modillion cornice and frieze above first floor; ground and first floor rusticated. Paired rectangular headed transomed and mullioned windows to first floor; 4 arcaded round-headed windows on ground floor with round-headed doorway with triangular pediment above ground floor entablature at north end. Return along Guildhall Placet with less regular but with similar openings; stuccoed stacks.
Reason for designation
Late C19 bank with elaborate stucco frontage. Group value.
Nearby in the register
- 109 St Mary StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- SportshoeCommercialunder 1 mi
- Elgin HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
- The Queen's & Royal GarageCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.