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
26694
Building Number
114
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/05/2002
Date of Amendment
24/05/2002
Name of Property
114 Cathedral Road
Address
114 Cathedral Road
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Riverside
Town
Cardiff
Locality
Easting
317041
Northing
177114
Street Side
NE
Location
Part of the group of fine Victorian houses in the centre 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. These were probably designed by E W M Corbett. This is one of the mid-period houses built c1885.
Exterior
Interior
Interior not available at time of resurvey.
Reason for designation
Included as part of a special group of late Victorian houses in Cathedral Road. They are perhaps the best example of their type remaining in Cardiff.
Group Description
Group of two semi-detached houses similar in design but differing in detail to Nos 110 and 112.
Built of red brick with Portland stone ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roofs with red brick chimneys and ridge tiles. Old English Revival/Norman Shaw style. Three storeys, and each house is two bays wide with a large and a small bay with paired entrances in the centre. The ground and first floors have canted 5-light bay windows with plate glass, the apron between them is rusticated sandstone. Above this the gabled top floor is jettied on carved timber brackets and with a 4-light canted timber mullioned oriel window in a two tier tile hung face. Plain bargeboards, large stack to side elevation. Paired doorways in brick porches with srone facing, arched doorways with keyed roundel above and parapet over. Each house has a window above, coved cornice, dormer with slate roof and finial. Side elevation with stone bands and small windows. Rear elevation not seen.
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