Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Offices of Football Association of Wales
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
- 51.48042, -3.18227
- Cadw reference
- 21701
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
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.