Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
33/34 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
- 51.48628, -3.17644
- Cadw reference
- 21711
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 Museum Place
History
Pair of semi-detached houses, probably 1870s, showing influence of Burges' Park House.
Exterior
Asymmetrical pair of semi-detached houses. Pennant stone with extensive bathstone dressings; slate roofs, tiled cresting; stone chimneys. Horned sash glazing. Three storeys and basements. Left house(No 34) has full-height bathstone splayed bay window with hipped roof, to L, catslide dormer, and narrow first floor over Gothic arch to porch which has 3-bay Gothic arcade to Museum Place (similar to Park House) with pink granite columns: steps up to entrance, pierced bathtone balustrade. Gable end has oriel window over porch arcade. Rear block continues down Museum Place, as 3-window block with windows on 4 levels, then lower 3-storey block with doorway.
R house (No 33) has pair of dormers enclosing 2-light windows with Gothic heads; bathstone splayed bay window with hipped roof, to R, set back, steps up to Gothic porch with flanking pink granite columns.
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
- 31/32 Park PlaceDomesticunder 1 mi
- National Museum of WalesRecreationalunder 1 mi
- Statue of David Lloyd GeorgeCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Statue of Lord Ninian Edward Crichton StuartCommemorativeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.