Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Offices of Football Association of Wales
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
- 51.48042, -3.18227
- Cadw reference
- 21701
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
Between Grand Hotel and Angel Hotel.
History
Dated 1888.
Exterior
Four storeys plus attic, 3-bay front in banded red brick and bathstone, terra-cotta ground floor; banded chimneys. Central Dutch pedimented dormer flanked by (later?) hipped dormers. Top floor has three 2-light mullioned windows with sash glazing. Second and first floors have central 2-storey oriel window. On ground floor, doorway to R, with renaissance style architrave, and balustrade over. At L end, window and 2 small windows either side of elongated corbel of oriel.
Reason for designation
Well-detailed late C19 commercial building. Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Grand HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- 5 Womanby StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- Castle ArcadeCommercialunder 1 mi
- Animal Wall, and Gates near Clock TowerGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.