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
14114
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
09/06/1988
Date of Amendment
30/04/1999
Name of Property
Wyndham Arcade-Nos 1-39 (Odd) & Nos 4-32 (Even)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Castle
Town
Locality
Easting
318392
Northing
176068
Street Side
W
Location
Skewed main frontage to Mill Lane which formerly faced the Glamorganshire Canal; Wyndham Arcade runs through to emerge as a passage at the S side of No 54 St Mary Street.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Constructed on backland site by 1886 (not shown on 1st edition OS map surveyed 1875-81); renovated early 1960s.
Exterior
Three storey, 7-bay rogue Italianate facade in painted brick with stone and stucco window bays and other decorations. Slate roofs with ridge cresting and single brick stack towards right end. Raised pedimented gable with ball finial, tripartite arched windows plus flanking balustered parapets linked to second floor windows with flanking aedicules corbelled over wide and high arcade entry. "WYNDHAM 1887 ARCADE" inscribed within elliptical arching. Four bay pilastered frontage to left, corbelled bipartite bays linked vertically with arched heads (formerly with ball finials) breaking through eaves cornice; sash windows with small pane glazing to heads. Arched finials to good floor cornice on paired brackets over shop fronts with modern fascia boards. Similar 2-bay frontage to right. Two-storey entry to original, mildly classical arcade with (modern) triangular glazed roof supported by arched cast-iron brackets with traceried spandrels and "hopper" capitals. Bracket cornice steps up towards St Mary Street end. Mostly 3-light timber windows with small-pane upper glazing on first floor. Moulded cornices with fluted end brackets to shop fascias (some covered by modern boards); moulded surrounds with single mullions and roll-mounbted sills to pilastered shop fronts with offset doorways under fanlights. Modern security shutter and boxes to most.
Interior
Reason for designation
A well-preserved feature of Victorian Cardiff; one of only 5 older examples remaining.
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