Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
High & Mighty
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
- 51.48085, -3.18000
- Cadw reference
- 21676
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
Opposite Lloyd's Bank.
History
Circa 1900
Exterior
Shop. Four storeys plus attic. Steeply-pitched slate roof with hipped dormer with tripartite window, traceried heads. Bracketed cornice. Top floor has 3 windows with small-pane glazing and foiled heads. First and second floors (slightly forward under cornice have later ripartite showroom windows with small-pane upper vents. Modern shopfront to ground floor.
Reason for designation
Listed for group value with adjacent listed buildings.
Nearby in the register
- Bella PastaCommercialunder 1 mi
- CranesCommercialunder 1 mi
- High Street ArcadeCommercialunder 1 mi
- Entrance Block to Castle ArcadeCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.