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
26683
Building Number
23
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/05/2002
Date of Amendment
24/05/2002
Name of Property
23 Cathedral Road
Address
23 Cathedral Road
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Riverside
Town
Cardiff
Locality
Easting
317385
Northing
176690
Street Side
SW
Location
Part of the group of fine Victorian houses at the south end of Cathedral Road.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Part of the late C19 development of Cathedral Road by the Bute Estate building houses for the new class of successful businessmen in Cardiff. This is one of the earlier houses built c1880.
Exterior
Interior
Interior not available at time of resurvey.
Reason for designation
Included as part of a special group of late Victorian houses together with the former synagogue. They are perhaps the best example of their type remaining in Cardiff.
Group Description
Group of two semi-detached houses with paired entrances.
Built of thinly coursed rough faced pennant sandstone with Bath stone ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roofs with red brick ridge chimneys and ridge tiles. Three storeys, and each house is two bays wide with a large and a small bay. The ground and first floors have polygonal 5-light bay windows with shields to the aprons and a leaded roof without parapet above. Triple sash window with stone mullions in gable above with shell motif over. Paired doorways with moulded arches in ashlar surround, fine part glazed doors with etched glass in door and fanlight; paired porch with polished limestone columns with foliated capitals, shaped heads, carved panel with heads over, cast iron railing to balcony. Each house has a window above this on each floor, the paired top floor one rises into a shared half-dormer with slate roof. All windows are plate glass sashes. Rear elevation not seen.
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