Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former County Club
Castle, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Recreational
- Date of designation
- 30 April 1999
- Community
- Castle
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.47910, -3.18046
- Cadw reference
- 21690
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
Almost opposite Guildhall Place.
History
Circa 1895, by EWM Corbett, architect.
Exterior
Club building in pressed red brick and terracotta, with bathstone dressings (painted), slate roof, prominent tall red brick chimneys with panelling. "Queen Anne" style. Front of 3 bays with recessed centre between 2 gables. Mullion and transom windows. Above first floor, cornice, and frieze with swags. To centre, steps up to porch with 2 arches to front and single arches to sides. To left, splayed bay window to ground floor; to R, 2-storey polygonal bay. To rear, 2-storey bow window to L, and pair of 2-storey splayed bay windows to R. Advanced basement arcade of 7 arches with terracotta balustrade supports iron verandah of 7 segmental arches on columns with floral capitals, iron balustrade to balcony above.
Reason for designation
Well-preserved "Queen Anne style" building. Group value with adjacent listed buildings.
Nearby in the register
- Jackson HallRecreationalunder 1 mi
- County Court OfficesCivilunder 1 mi
- The Queen's & Royal GarageCommercialunder 1 mi
- Flyhalf & FirkinCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.