Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
9&10 Park Place
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
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 3 September 1984
- Community
- Castle
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.48367, -3.17479
- Cadw reference
- 14104
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
Opposite New Theatre.
History
Circa 1876, by W D Blessley, architect. Restored 1987-89 by Wigley Fox Partnership..
Exterior
Large High Victorian Gothic pair of houses. Three storeys and basement with paired full height bays to centre and entrance bays to outer ends. Snecked rubble with freestone dressings and weathered stringcourses, some brick to gables and chimney stacks (centre and ends). Slate roofs; twin gables rise over splayed bays which also have traceried gablets, bracket eaves. Four windows wide, paired and single pointed lights with stone shafts, cusping, carved capitals etc, sash windows. Pointed entrance archways up parapetted stairs, moulded arches on foliage corbels, recessed Gothic screens with side lights to doors, elaborate plasterwork to porches.
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
- 11 Park PlaceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 7&8 Park PlaceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 5&6 Park PlaceCommercialunder 1 mi
- New TheatreRecreationalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.