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
81278
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/05/1975
Date of Amendment
30/06/2003
Name of Property
St. Cross
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Llandaff
Town
Cardiff
Locality
Llandaff
Easting
315514
Northing
177959
Street Side
Location
Part of the group of important buildings at the south-west entrance to The Cathedral Green.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
1859-61, by Ewan Christian, architect to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. Built as a pair of houses for Minor Canons of the Cathedral.
Exterior
The right-hand house of a handed pair, see also St. Andrew. Built with multi-coloured stone, square or rectangular in shape, and laid in irregular courses, Bath stone ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roof. Designed in a restrained Gothic style, double depth central entry plan with stair at rear. Two storeys, three bays with single storey flanking wing with a stepped parapet descending in height towards the right. The left-hand bay is narrower, with a 2-light window on first and ground floors, ground floor window transomed. Central bay gabled with chimney finial rising through centre of gable; 3-light mullioned window on first floor with pointed relieving arch over on ground floor, pointed doorway with dripstone flanked on the right by a mullioned and transomed window. Right end bay with a 3-light mullioned window on first floor and, on ground floor, a single light transomed window and a 2-light transomed window. Single storey wing to right, with a 3-light mullioned window and a stepped parapet (see above). In each return by base of stack, a 2-light flat-headed mullioned window with pointed arch over. Steeply pitched roof with gable copings and end stacks. The rear elevation has a central stair window with 2-lights and two transoms, back door below. This is flanked by a canted bay to the left and a 3-light window to the right, 2-light windows in half dormers above. 3-light window in single storey wing to left.
Interior
Interior not inspected at resurvey.
Reason for designation
Included as an unaltered design by Ewan Christian and for its group value with the other listed buildings around The Cathedral Green and on the High Street.
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