Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
52-62 Charles Street
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
- 51.48032, -3.17328
- Cadw reference
- 21717
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
Exterior
Three storey terrace of six 2-window Italianate stucco houses, now in commercial use. Bracketed cornice and parapet. Second floors have 2 camber-headed windows with stucco hoods (hoods lost at No 60) and 4-pane sash glazing (lost at No 60). On first floors, tall sash windows under bracketed cornices, and balconies with convex iron frontals (sash glazing lost at No 60). On ground floors, doorways with round-arched overlights flanked by windows with Venetian-derived cornices, but simplified glazing (at No 60, ground floor re-arranged with central doorway flanked by windows, all under classically derived fascia) No 62 is slightly advanced, and has to L, 2-storey splayed bay window. To R. open porch with quatrefoil banding to parapet, and columns with annulets and foliage capitals.
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
- 50 Charles StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- Caffe LatteCommercialunder 1 mi
- GriffithsCommercialunder 1 mi
- 44 Charles StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.