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
21717
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/04/1999
Date of Amendment
30/04/1999
Name of Property
52-62 Charles Street
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Castle
Town
Locality
Easting
318620
Northing
176360
Street Side
W
Location
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Exterior
Three storey terrace of six 2-window Italianate stucco houses, now in commercial use. Bracketed cornice and parapet. Second floors have 2 camber-headed windows with stucco hoods (hoods lost at No 60) and 4-pane sash glazing (lost at No 60). On first floors, tall sash windows under bracketed cornices, and balconies with convex iron frontals (sash glazing lost at No 60). On ground floors, doorways with round-arched overlights flanked by windows with Venetian-derived cornices, but simplified glazing (at No 60, ground floor re-arranged with central doorway flanked by windows, all under classically derived fascia) No 62 is slightly advanced, and has to L, 2-storey splayed bay window. To R. open porch with quatrefoil banding to parapet, and columns with annulets and foliage capitals.
Interior
Reason for designation
Part of a group of mid C19 former houses in Charles Street, once amongst most fashionable streets in Cardiff centre. Group value.
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