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
26685
Building Number
15  
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
24/05/2002  
Date of Amendment
24/05/2002  
Name of Property
15 Cathedral Road  
Address
15 Cathedral Road  

Location


Unitary Authority
Cardiff  
Community
Riverside  
Town
Cardiff  
Locality
 
Easting
317401  
Northing
176668  
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 four terraced houses. 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. Quiet Gothic style. 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 an arcaded parapet above. Triple sash window with stone mullions in gable above. Paired dorways in 3-centred arches in ashlar surround, each house has a window above this on each floor, the 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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