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
81255
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/06/2003
Date of Amendment
30/06/2003
Name of Property
2 Llandaff Place
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Llandaff
Town
Cardiff
Locality
Llandaff
Easting
316041
Northing
177457
Street Side
Location
A group of two semi-detached pairs of houses set back from Cardiff Road at the south entrance to Llandaff Community.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built c1855 and an unusual house type for Cardiff were there is little Cheltenham style stucco. The architect is not known.
Exterior
This house does retain its first floor ironwork and has an extended rear wing.
Interior
Interior not inspected at resurvey.
Reason for designation
Included for its architectural interest as a finely designed mid C19 urban house type which is unusual for Cardiff.
Group Description
Nos. 1-4 Llandaff Place
Wholly rendered and painted with horizontal rustication and quoins to the ground floor and smooth with some decoration above, Welsh slate roofs. Two Italianate semi-detached pairs; one pair still domestic and the other now the Churchill Hotel. Large grand houses of three storeys and semi-basement and with considerable rear wings some parts of which are C20 extensions. Each house has two bays with a narrow bay on the outside for the entrances and a much wider central bay for the principal rooms. Steps and pierced balustraded wall to the front; porches with square columns and semi-circular keyed heads, sidelights to porch, panelled door with fanlight. In the centre a 3-window canted bay, above this a window of three tall lights with arched heads, this within a slight projection with dentil conrnice above; above this again a single window with bracketted head. All these windows are large plate glass sashes. The outer bay has a French window with bracketted head onto a balcony over the porch, but the ironwork does not survive to all houses, above this is a another plain sash. Projecting eaves on large brackets, gabled to the main bays. Rendered multi-flued stacks. Two gabled returns with one and two windows as before; lower three storey rear wings with similar small windows. Rear elevations are plainer but with still with sash windows.
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