Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
High Street Arcade
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
- 51.48059, -3.17984
- Cadw reference
- 21677
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 entrance to Castle Arcade.
History
1885, by T Waring and Son, with J P Jones.
Exterior
Entrance block to High Street in eclectic style mixing Classical and Gothic with hints of Arabic. Painted front of brick and bathstone with Radyr stone plinth. Three storeys with dentil cornice and relief banding. Three bays; centre set forward flanked by pilasters. Two camber-headed sash windows to each bay of top floor. On first floor, centre windows set back behind crocketed Gothic arch; to each side, group of 3 sash windows articulated by colonettes, with reliefs in round-arched heads. Ground floor shop fronts set forward flanking entrance to arcade; above shops, bathstone parapets with relief arcading. Arcade proper runs through in curve to Working Street and is numbered up to 34, odd numbers to N, even numbers to S. Glass roof with triangular trusses.
Reason for designation
Well-preserved Victorian shopping arcade, contributing to Cardiff's reputation as "City of Arcades". Group value.
Nearby in the register
- 13 & 14 KitchensCommercialunder 1 mi
- SelectCommercialunder 1 mi
- High & MightyCommercialunder 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.