Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
7&8 Park Place
Castle, Cardiff, Wales
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
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
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
- 5&6 Park PlaceCommercialunder 1 mi
- 9&10 Park PlaceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 3&4 Park PalceCommercialunder 1 mi
- 11 Park PlaceDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.