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
14103
Building Number
7&8  
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
03/09/1984  
Date of Amendment
30/04/1999  
Name of Property
7&8 Park Place  
Address
7&8 Park Place  

Location


Unitary Authority
Cardiff  
Community
Castle  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
318528  
Northing
176716  
Street Side
E  
Location
Opposite Greyfriars' Road.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
Circa 1876, by W D Blessley, architect. Restored 1987-89 by Wigley Fox Partnership.  

Exterior
Large Gothic semi-detached pair of houses, now modernised as offices. Three storeys, and basement. Snecked Pennant rubble with freestone dressings and weathered stringcourses. Hipped slate roofs, half hipped over pointed tripartite windows in central bays, gable heads to outer bays. Solid eaves band crossing top storey window heads with oculi over. Central chimney with polygonal stacks. Sash glazing set in mullioned windows. Four windows wide; paired splayed bays to centre stop at first floor. Broad band course between ground and first floor. Ground floor has shouldered-arched windows. Gothic-arched entrances in outer ground floor bays up parapetted stairs; flanking shafts with carved capitals. End elevations have projecting cut down chimney stacks.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Part of a group of well-preserved High Victorian middle-class houses in city centre. Group value with adjacent listed buildings.  

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