Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lunn Poly
Castle, Cardiff, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Castle, Cardiff, designated on 30 April 1999.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 30 April 1999
- Community
- Castle
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.47863, -3.17790
- Cadw reference
- 21652
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
To L of Louis Restaurant.
History
Late C19.
Exterior
Dutch Renaissance style. Three storeys plus attic, 2 window elevation. Painted front over (probably) bathstone and stucco; yellow brick chimneys Attic has, to R, Dutch gabled dormer window; small gabled dormer to L. To R, 2-storey splayed oriel window, Tuscan columns to first floor; to L, 2nd floor has window, first floor has window with tall keystone breaking up into pediment. Modern shopfront.
Reason for designation
Part of a group of late C19 buildings between Wharton Street and Caroline Street. Group value.
Nearby in the register
- 32 St Mary StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 29 & 30Commercialunder 1 mi
- 26-27 Nationwide Building SocietyCommercialunder 1 mi
- David MorganCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.