7&8 Park Place

Castle, Cardiff, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Castle, Cardiff, designated on 3 September 1984.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of 7&8 Park Place, Castle, Cardiff, with a pin at the register's coordinates — Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation: Listed building, Grade II
Broad class: Domestic
Date of designation: 3 September 1984
Community: Castle
Unitary authority: Cardiff
Country: Wales
Coordinates: 51.48351, -3.17468
Cadw reference: 14103

TodayHistorical map

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)

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Cadw's description

Location

Opposite Greyfriars' Road.

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, and basement. Snecked Pennant rubble with freestone dressings and weathered stringcourses. Hipped slate roofs, half hipped over pointed tripartite windows in central bays, gable heads to outer bays. Solid eaves band crossing top storey window heads with oculi over. Central chimney with polygonal stacks. Sash glazing set in mullioned windows. Four windows wide; paired splayed bays to centre stop at first floor. Broad band course between ground and first floor. Ground floor has shouldered-arched windows. Gothic-arched entrances in outer ground floor bays up parapetted stairs; flanking shafts with carved capitals.
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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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