Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Borough Chambers
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
- 51.47928, -3.17793
- Cadw reference
- 21684
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
Near corner with St Mary Street.
History
Late Victorian development of shops with Chambers over. The architect Col E M Bruce Vaughan had his offices here at turn of century.
Exterior
Three storey, four window block. Yellow and red brick bands with bathstone oriel windows; slate roof, tall red brick chimneys. On first and second floors, 4 bathstone oriel windows on brackets; relief aprons between floors. On ground floor, to R, doorway with bracketed hood and inscription "Borough Chambers"; arched doorway; to L modernised shopfronts between stone pilasters with florl capitals, and brackets with garlands to cornice.
Reason for designation
Well-designed Victorian commercial block with group value with adjacent buildings.
Nearby in the register
- Newt & CucumberCommercialunder 1 mi
- City GlassworksCommercialunder 1 mi
- Sandringham HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- Cheltenham & Gloucester Building SocietyCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.