Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Entrance Block to Wyndham Arcade
Castle, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 9 June 1988
- Community
- Castle
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.47741, -3.17689
- Cadw reference
- 14113
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
About 10m S of junction with Caroline Street.
Exterior
Commercial building dating from the third quarter of C19. 4 storey, 3 bay (eroded) sandstone palazzo fascade with heavily moulded bracket cornice and foliage corbels, rusticated pilasters, sill bands. Tripartite top floor windows with chamfered and scalloped lintels, segmental arched heads to bipartities on second floor with recessed sash windows under shouldered heads. Square-headed bipartites to first floor in segmental arched recesses with tablet-flowers to heads and foliage aprons. Modernised shop front to left with 4-panel recessed door in corner; rectangular entry under roll-moulded band to right hand passage leading to Wyndham Arcade.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Wyndham Arcade.
Nearby in the register
- Mulligan's (former Cambrian Hotel)Commercialunder 1 mi
- Wyndham Arcade-Nos 1-39 (Odd) & Nos 4-32 (Even)Commercialunder 1 mi
- Ristorante Il PadrinoCommercialunder 1 mi
- The Philharmonic HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.