Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Entrance Block to Castle Arcade
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
- 51.48059, -3.18031
- Cadw reference
- 21712
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
Almost opposite entrance of High Street Arcade.
History
Circa 1887.
Exterior
Four storey block of 9 windows arranged 2-2-1-2-2 in shallow bays; horned sash windows. Pressed yellow brick; bathstone dressings (painted), slate roof; end bays with steeply-pitched pavilion roofs with round-arched dormer windows. Bracketed cornice with medallion frieze. Round arched windows to top floor, camber-headed windows to 1st and 2nd floors, colonettes, relief aprons. Centre has 2 storey splayed oriel window to 1st and 2nd floors. Round arched entrance to arcade with relief spandrels; flanking modern shopfronts.
Reason for designation
Entrance block to finest of Cardiff's shopping arcades.
Nearby in the register
- FloydCommercialunder 1 mi
- Lloyd's Bank and ChambersCommercialunder 1 mi
- Pizza HutCommercialunder 1 mi
- High Street ArcadeCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.