Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
31/32 Park Place
Castle, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 30 April 1999
- Community
- Castle
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.48612, -3.17632
- Cadw reference
- 21710
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
About 20m S of junction with Museum Place.
History
Pair of semi-detached houses, probably 1870s, showing influence of Burges' Park House.
Exterior
Mirrored pair of semi-detached houses. Pennant stone with extensive bathstone dressings and some red brick banding; slate roofs, tiled cresting; central stone chimney with Gothic detailing. Eaves have bathstone brackets, decorative band of bathstone and red brick. To centre, pair of 3-storey gabled bays in bathstone ashlar; 2 shouldered windows to attic; tripartite windows to first and ground floors. Outer faces of bays have turrets with steep pyramidal roofs. which engage with gabled Gothic porches (in bathstone). Rounded corners (containing staircase) have stepped shouldered windows; similar window to ground floor.
Reason for designation
Pair of well-preserved High Victorian middle-class houses in city centre. Group value with adjacent listed buildings.
Nearby in the register
- 33/34 Park PlaceDomesticunder 1 mi
- National Museum of WalesRecreationalunder 1 mi
- Statue of David Lloyd GeorgeCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Park HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.