Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
03/09/1984
Date of Amendment
30/04/1999
Name of Property
,9&10,Park Place,,,SOUTH GLAMORGAN,
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Location
Opposite New Theatre.
History
Circa 1876, by W D Blessley, architect. Restored 1987-89 by Wigley Fox Partnership..
Exterior
Large High Victorian Gothic pair of houses. Three storeys and basement with paired full height bays to centre and entrance bays to outer ends. Snecked rubble with freestone dressings and weathered stringcourses, some brick to gables and chimney stacks (centre and ends). Slate roofs; twin gables rise over splayed bays which also have traceried gablets, bracket eaves. Four windows wide, paired and single pointed lights with stone shafts, cusping, carved capitals etc, sash windows. Pointed entrance archways up parapetted stairs, moulded arches on foliage corbels, recessed Gothic screens with side lights to doors, elaborate plasterwork to porches.
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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