Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Newt & Cucumber
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
- 51.47935, -3.17780
- Cadw reference
- 21685
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
On corner with Bakers' Row.
History
Late C19 development of shops with offices above.
Exterior
Three storeys plus attic. Six windows; yellow brick with extensive bathstone dressings includingwindow architraves entablatures and pilasters. Bracketed cornice with parapet broken by dormers with segmental pediments. On top floor, L bay has tripartite window, others 2-light mullion and transom windows with curvilinear pediments. On first floor, L bay has oriel window, others 3-light mullion and transom windows, but 4th bay has 2-light window with curved stone balcony; below this, entrance to chambers flanked by modernised shopfronts articulated by banded stone pilasters supporting bracketed cornice. Similar treatment to L return in Bakers' Row.
Reason for designation
Well-designed Victorian commercial block with group value with adjacent buildings.
Nearby in the register
- Borough ChambersCommercialunder 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.