Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
21677
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/04/1999
Date of Amendment
30/04/1999
Name of Property
High Street Arcade
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Castle
Town
Locality
Easting
318165
Northing
176397
Street Side
E
Location
Opposite entrance to Castle Arcade.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
1885, by T Waring and Son, with J P Jones.
Exterior
Entrance block to High Street in eclectic style mixing Classical and Gothic with hints of Arabic. Painted front of brick and bathstone with Radyr stone plinth. Three storeys with dentil cornice and relief banding. Three bays; centre set forward flanked by pilasters. Two camber-headed sash windows to each bay of top floor. On first floor, centre windows set back behind crocketed Gothic arch; to each side, group of 3 sash windows articulated by colonettes, with reliefs in round-arched heads. Ground floor shop fronts set forward flanking entrance to arcade; above shops, bathstone parapets with relief arcading. Arcade proper runs through in curve to Working Street and is numbered up to 34, odd numbers to N, even numbers to S. Glass roof with triangular trusses.
Interior
Reason for designation
Well-preserved Victorian shopping arcade, contributing to Cardiff's reputation as "City of Arcades". Group value.
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