Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
14103
Building Number
7&8
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
03/09/1984
Date of Amendment
30/04/1999
Name of Property
,7&8,Park Place,,,SOUTH GLAMORGAN,
Address
7&8 Park Place
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Castle
Town
Locality
Easting
318528
Northing
176716
Street Side
E
Location
Opposite Greyfriars' Road.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
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, and basement. Snecked Pennant rubble with freestone dressings and weathered stringcourses. Hipped slate roofs, half hipped over pointed tripartite windows in central bays, gable heads to outer bays. Solid eaves band crossing top storey window heads with oculi over. Central chimney with polygonal stacks. Sash glazing set in mullioned windows. Four windows wide; paired splayed bays to centre stop at first floor. Broad band course between ground and first floor. Ground floor has shouldered-arched windows. Gothic-arched entrances in outer ground floor bays up parapetted stairs; flanking shafts with carved capitals.
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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