Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pillar Box outside 81 Ninian Road
Roath, Cardiff, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Roath Park, Cardiff, Roath, designated on 24 May 2002.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 24 May 2002
- Locality
- Roath Park
- Town
- Cardiff
- Community
- Roath
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.50001, -3.17282
- Cadw reference
- 26660
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
At the junction of Ninian Road and Morlais Street and now partly incorporated into the trunk of a mature tree.
History
Residential development in the northern area of Roath occurred in the period 1890-1914. The Marquess of Bute had donated land around Roath Brook for a public park in 1887, beginning an overall strategy for development of a high-quality residential district, to which the setting of Roath Park was instrumental. Houses on the S side of Roath Park Pleasure Gardens were built in the period 1897-1907 and the pillar box was an integral component of the development, probably erected before 1901. The founders name is no longer legible as the base is concealed by raising of the footway, but it is of the standard type introduced by the Post Office in 1887.
Exterior
A cylindrical cast iron pillar box painted red with base concealed. The hinged door bears the embossed royal cipher 'VR'. Above it is the horizontal posting aperture flanked by 'Post Office' in relief. The box has a projecting shallow domed cap with fluted cornice.
Reason for designation
Listed as a rare surviving Victorian pillar box, and for its contribution to the historic character of Ninan Road.
Nearby in the register
- 81 Ninian RoadDomesticunder 1 mi
- 80 Ninian RoadDomesticunder 1 mi
- 81A Ninian RoadDomesticunder 1 mi
- 79 Ninian RoadDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.