Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
14101
Building Number
3&4
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
03/09/1984
Date of Amendment
30/04/1999
Name of Property
3&4 Park Palce
Address
3&4 Park Place
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Castle
Town
Locality
Easting
318541
Northing
176683
Street Side
E
Location
To L of Park Hotel.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Circa 1876, by W D Blessley, architect. Restored 1987-89 by Wigley Fox Partnership.
Exterior
Large Gothic semi-detached pair of houses, now modernised as offices. Three storeys, attics and basement. Snecked Pennant rubble with freestone dressings and weathered stringcourses. Hipped slate roofs, chimney rebuilt in red brick. Four windows wide; paired splayed bays to centre with raised pyramidal roof over attics with windows at 2 levels. Sash glazing set in mullioned windows. First floor has Gothic windows with stone shafts and carved capitals. Segmental-headed entrances in outer ground floor bays up parapetted stairs; corbelled hoods with carved capitals supporting fretted parapets with carved beasts to angles. End elevations have projecting cut down chimney stacks.
Interior
Reason for designation
Part of a group of well-preserved High Victorian middle-class houses in city centre.
Group value with adjacent listed buildings.
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