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
21709
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/04/1999
Date of Amendment
30/04/1999
Name of Property
Andrews Buildings
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Castle
Town
Locality
Easting
318487
Northing
176608
Street Side
N
Location
Large block on N side of Queen Street, opposite Cathedral walk entrance to St David's Centre.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Dated 1896. Architect Edward Webb. Built by Solomon Andrews (1835-1908), prominent Cardiff entrepreneur. Part of Andrew's ambitions to improve Cardiff by providing modern business facilities. Originally included David Evans department store, an arcade, Andrews Hall, and Andrews Small Hall, and business chambers. Andrews' Hall later rebuilt as cinema.
Exterior
Comprises Nos 63 to 77 Queen Street. Large 4-storey block, free Renaissance style faced in bathstone; horned sash glazing. Square-headed windows to top floor, generally camber-headed windows to second floor, and round-headed windows to first floor with five 2-storey oriel windows on first and second floors.
Frontage, with parapet with small pediments reads as 9 bays. From L, three windows (cinema entrance below), then two storey oriel window, then entrance to Andrews Chambers, then two storey oriel window, then three windows, another two storey oriel window, followed by entrance to former arcade, a pair of two storey oriel windows, and a 4-window bay. On ground floor, generally modern shopfronts and cinema entrance. Entrances to Andrews Chambers and former Andrews Arcade both have oculi at first floor level; chambers have pedimented stone doorway with date; arcade entrance simplified.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed primarily for its extensive Queen Street frontage; one of the most ambitious developments of Solomon Andrews, Cardiff's most ambitious entrepreneur.
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