Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Griffiths
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
- 51.48062, -3.17354
- Cadw reference
- 21714
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
To L of No 44.
History
Charles Street was built up (from the N), in the 1850s and 1860s.
Exterior
Former house, now offices. Three storey, 3 window front. Italianate style. Stucco. Deep bracketed cornice, banded pilasters to ends, banded ground floor. Three 4-pane hornless sashes to top floor. On first floor, 3 sash windows with bracketed cornices. In ground floor, doorway isto L, shallow rectangular overlight; 2 sash windows to R.
Reason for designation
Part of a group of mid C19 former houses in Charles Street, once amongst most fashionable streets in Cardiff centre. Group value.
Nearby in the register
- 44 Charles StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Caffe LatteCommercialunder 1 mi
- 50 Charles StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 52-62 Charles StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.