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
14079
Building Number
107
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
13/01/1976
Date of Amendment
24/05/2002
Name of Property
Former Wyndham Public House
Address
107 Cowbridge Road East
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Riverside
Town
Cardiff
Locality
Canton
Easting
317207
Northing
176449
Street Side
S
Location
A prominent building at the junction with Wellington Street.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
A mid C19 public house, dating probably from 1840-50, built at a strategic city crossroads. It was still a public house when listed in 1976 but has since been converted to offices with some alterations to the main elevations.
Exterior
Three storey corner building on junction with Wellington Street. Hipped Welsh slate roof with paired bracket eaves and wall stacks, cornice and stuccoed walls.
Eastern or front elevation of three bays. Sash windows three panes wide in reveals in square headed openings on second floor. On first floor, sash windows four panes wide, the end windows with cornices on consoles and the centre window with moulded architrave and pediment on consoles. Ground floor articulated by Ionic pilasters with bands of fluting and continuous moulded bracketed cornice. A restored 3-light sash window with 2 over 2 panes flanking 6 over 6 in moulded architrave to each side of new 8 over 8 pane sash with moulded architrave in what was once the central doorway. Side elevations in similar style but with incomplete fenestration pattern.
Wellington Road elevation: Plain with three sash windows on the ground floor, two on the first and three on the second, all 8 over 8 pane sashes. Blank wall of lower wing to left.
Cowbridge Road East elevation: This has the ground floor as the main elevation except now with a central doorway and with a blind panel in place of the left hand window. Blind panel also to left hand window on first floor; three windows on upper floor, all 8 over 8 sashes. Later wing to right, two storeys only and built of banded pennant sandstone; projecting two storey central bay.
Interior
The public house interior was lost when the building was converted to office use in c1980.
Reason for designation
Included for its special architectural character in a prominent townscape location.
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