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
21712
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/04/1999
Date of Amendment
30/04/1999
Name of Property
Entrance Block to Castle Arcade
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Castle
Town
Locality
Easting
318132
Northing
176398
Street Side
W
Location
Almost opposite entrance of High Street Arcade.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Circa 1887.
Exterior
Four storey block of 9 windows arranged 2-2-1-2-2 in shallow bays; horned sash windows. Pressed yellow brick; bathstone dressings (painted), slate roof; end bays with steeply-pitched pavilion roofs with round-arched dormer windows. Bracketed cornice with medallion frieze. Round arched windows to top floor, camber-headed windows to 1st and 2nd floors, colonettes, relief aprons. Centre has 2 storey splayed oriel window to 1st and 2nd floors. Round arched entrance to arcade with relief spandrels; flanking modern shopfronts.
Interior
Reason for designation
Entrance block to finest of Cardiff's shopping arcades.
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