Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
13873
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
28/01/1963
Date of Amendment
28/11/2003
Name of Property
The Old Post Office Restaurant
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
St. Fagans
Town
Cardiff
Locality
St Fagans
Easting
312064
Northing
177243
Street Side
E
Location
Part of a group of historic buildings in the main street of St Fagans village.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Northern two-storey part with C18 or earlier core; southern single storey part of C19 date; rear additions of the 1990s.
Exterior
Northern part, elevation to street with cement rendered cladding, slate gabled roof with flanking red brick stacks. Two storeys, four 3-panes wide sash windows on first floor; on ground floor a five panes wide sash window, one with horns, to each side of doorway with stone porch and six-panelled door.
Southern part of one storey. Elevation to the street has slate gabled roof, former doorway converted to a window to left hand and a 3-light stone mullion-and-transom window to the right hand, with wall letter box with GR cipher to the right of this.
Rear elevation with conservatory and other additions of the 1990s as part of its conversion to a restaurant.
Interior
Within, hallway with stone flagged floor and archway, and with blocked window opening in north wall. North ground floor room formerly with winding wood stair against north wall, also with ceiling beams; former dairy wing in rear wing to east of hallway; upstairs, roof trusses partly visible.
Reason for designation
Included as a part of the important group of historic estate buildings at the centre of St. Fagans village.
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