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
14105
Building Number
11
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
03/09/1984
Date of Amendment
30/04/1999
Name of Property
11 Park Place
Address
11 Park Place
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Castle
Town
Locality
Easting
318514
Northing
176749
Street Side
E
Location
Opposite New Theatre.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Circa 1880. By W D Blessley, architect. Restored 1987-89 by Wigley Fox Partnership.
Exterior
Detached town house in mixed Gothic style. 3 storeys and basement, 3 bays wide. Coursed snecked masonry with freestone dressings and weathered stringcourse , half-timbereing to gables. Cross-gable to right with 2 storey splayed bay, full height bay to left with hipped roof. Small dormerhead to centre. Slate roofs, bracket eaves to left bay which has paired and single Gothic lights with dripmoulds to upper storeys, sash windows. Tripartite window to upper right under strainer arch with chequerboard tiling, bay windows below as before. Central pointed entrance arch up parapetted stairs, moulded archway with foliage capitals and nook shafts, recessed Gothic screen with side lights to door, elaborate plaster ceiling. Corbelled stack between dormers to left elevation.
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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