Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cheltenham & Gloucester Building Society
Castle, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 30 April 1999
- Community
- Castle
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.47922, -3.17829
- Cadw reference
- 21644
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
On corner with Wharton Street.
History
Circa 1880.
Exterior
Venetian Gothic Style of C15. Three storey shop, brick with freestone dressings (painted). Bracketed cornice. Second floor has 2 paired windows with lobed heads enclosed within hoodmould; cusped impost band. First floor has 2 pairs of Gothic windows enclosed by round arches with relief decoration to heads, foliage band at impost level. C20 shopfront enclosed by classicising pillars.
Reason for designation
Included for group vale with adjacent listed buildings.
Nearby in the register
- Sandringham HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- OddbinsCommercialunder 1 mi
- Borough ChambersCommercialunder 1 mi
- RohanCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.