Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Monroe's
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
- 51.47855, -3.17846
- Cadw reference
- 21674
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
To L of Westminster House, stepped down.
Exterior
Three storeys, three windows; richly carved pale ashlar front, slate roof.
Front articulated by columns and pilasters with foliage capitals, and carved frieze bands. Top floor has sash windows with reliefs in round heads, paired colonettes to centre window. First floor has paired windows with reliefs in round heads; articulated by clustered shafts with foliage capitals. On ground floor, central shop window flanked 2 doorways; stone columns flank window; pillars to ends.
Reason for designation
Richly detailed late C19 commercial frontage. Group value.
Nearby in the register
- HullaballoosCommercialunder 1 mi
- 91 St Mary StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 90 St Mary StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- Bar EmporiumCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.