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
18290
Building Number
217
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
08/04/1997
Date of Amendment
08/04/1997
Name of Property
Moorlands Hotel
Address
217 Carlisle Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Splott
Town
Locality
Easting
320410
Northing
177153
Street Side
W
Location
On N corner of Carlisle Street and Moorland Road.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Dated 1896. By Edwin Seward architect, of Cardiff; carving by Clarke of Llandaff.
Exterior
Public House. Flemish Renaissance style. Two storeys plus attics, Pennant stone with freestone dressings, cornices and banding (painted), slate roofs, brick chimneys with stone cornices. Roughly central corner bay has 3 storeys, pavilion roof, strapwork frieze with date "1896", 3-light window at top level; below this, 2-storey bowed bay window with mullion and transom windows with low-relief banding including inscription "Moorlands Hotel". To L of centre, 4 windows (but 2 gabled dormer windows at attic level) , first floor windows grouped as pairs in architraves with small pediments with relief aprons, on ground floor, round-arched doorway with keystones, glazed overlight, to L, 3 sash windows in architraves with keystones. Left end bay treated as 'frontispiece' with elaborate stepped gable in Flemish Renaissance style, swan-kneck pediment, volutes, urn finials, relief panels, flanking pilasters enclose (at first floor) 3-light mullion and transom window; on ground floor, broad archway enclosing door and windows.
To R of central corner bay, 2 first floor windows (single dormer at attic level), paired as L, round-arched ground floor window in architrave with keystones.
Right end bay has gable similar to L end bay, but broader; elaborate pediment
on first floor, 3 windows, central window flanked by pilasters; on ground floor, 2 arches, of which L is treated as window, R is archway through to rear yard.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as elaborate example of public house architecture
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