Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
19/05/1975
Date of Amendment
30/06/2003
Name of Property
NOS.2 & 4 HIGH STREET,LLANDAFF,,,,,SOUTH GLAMORGAN,
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Location
Part of the group of important buildings at the south-west entrance to The Cathedral Green.
History
Built together with No 4 (qv) in c1863 as a home and premises for Mr. Seaborn the butcher. Possibly designed by John Prichard.
Exterior
The right-hand part of a two storey splayed street front with two bays facing north-east (No. 2) and two bays facing south-east (No. 4 qv). Built of polychromatic stone rubble and Bath stone ashlar quoins and dressings; carved ashlar brackets to eaves, Welsh slate roof, with chimney stacks set low on the rear slope, cylindrical terracotta pots. Trefoil headed window to each bay on first floor; pointed doorways and flat headed windows on ground floor. The two bays of No. 2 have on the ground floor a flat-headed window in the right hand bay and in left hand bay a large 4-light window with columns and pillar separating lights and with pointed doorway to right of it; multi-pane windows under double relieving arch. Rear elevation not seen.
Interior
Interior not inspected at resurvey.
Reason for designation
Included as a possible design by John Prichard and for its group value with the other listed buildings around The Cathedral Green and on the High Street.
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