Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
3&4 Park Palce
Castle, Cardiff, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Castle, Cardiff, designated on 3 September 1984.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 3 September 1984
- Community
- Castle
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.48321, -3.17449
- Cadw reference
- 14101
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
To L of Park Hotel.
History
Circa 1876, by W D Blessley, architect. Restored 1987-89 by Wigley Fox Partnership.
Exterior
Large Gothic semi-detached pair of houses, now modernised as offices. Three storeys, attics and basement. Snecked Pennant rubble with freestone dressings and weathered stringcourses. Hipped slate roofs, chimney rebuilt in red brick. Four windows wide; paired splayed bays to centre with raised pyramidal roof over attics with windows at 2 levels. Sash glazing set in mullioned windows. First floor has Gothic windows with stone shafts and carved capitals. Segmental-headed entrances in outer ground floor bays up parapetted stairs; corbelled hoods with carved capitals supporting fretted parapets with carved beasts to angles. End elevations have projecting cut down chimney stacks.
Reason for designation
Part of a group of well-preserved High Victorian middle-class houses in city centre.
Group value with adjacent listed buildings.
Nearby in the register
- 5&6 Park PlaceCommercialunder 1 mi
- 7&8 Park PlaceDomesticunder 1 mi
- Park HotelCommercialunder 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.