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
25827
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/10/2001
Date of Amendment
22/10/2001
Name of Property
Colonnade and gateways at S end of Queen Anne Square
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Cathays
Town
Cardiff
Locality
Cathays
Easting
317875
Northing
177304
Street Side
N
Location
Opposite the junction with King Edward VII Avenue.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
Queen Anne Square was built to a planned layout in the 1930s and 1950s aligned with King Edward VII Avenue to the S, on a site originally earmarked for a Welsh Parliament House. The colonnade is shown on the 1941 Ordnance Survey, when only 9 of the present 31 houses had been built.
Exterior
In a simple classical style and comprising 2 gateways with colonnade between, of brick with freestone dressings. The gateways have square brick piers with angle pilasters, and are crowned by garlanded urns on capstones. On the outer sides a coped wall is swept down to a lower wall incorporating pedestrian side gates, and terminating in a square pier with stone cap. The pedestrian gateways have flat brick arches with keystones. The 5-bay freestone Tuscan colonnade has 4 pairs of columns, and a moulded entablature topped by urns. Between the columns each bay has simple ironwork railings incorporating dog bars.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for its special contribution to the architectural character of the civic centre, to which with Aberdare Hall it defines the N end.
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