26-27 Nationwide Building Society

Castle, Cardiff, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Castle, Cardiff, designated on 30 April 1999.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of 26-27 Nationwide Building Society, 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: Commercial
Date of designation: 30 April 1999
Community: Castle
Unitary authority: Cardiff
Country: Wales
Coordinates: 51.47887, -3.17804
Cadw reference: 21649

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

To R of Cottage Public House.

History

Circa 1880.

Exterior

Pair of shops, now single premises. Three storeys, bathstone with granite colonettes to windows. Parapet with panelling, cornice above first floor. Each shop has tripartite second floor window of 3 shouldered arches with rope mouldings, keystones, relief heads in roundels, foliage band at impost level. First floor has triple round-arched window with keystones, granite colonettes. Modern shopfronts.

Reason for designation

Well-detailed C19 frontages. Group value.

Nearby in the register

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

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