Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
21643
Building Number
8
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/04/1999
Date of Amendment
09/07/2019
Name of Property
The Borough Public House
Address
8 St Mary Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Castle
Town
Cardiff
Locality
Easting
318229
Northing
176312
Street Side
E
Location
Between Market Buildings and Howell's Store.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
1891 by J P Jones, architect, who also designed adjacent Market Buildings. The narrow frontage (about 5 metres) is dictated, as in many buildings in St Mary Street, by the original medieval burgage plots. Said to have been rebuilt to this height for James Howell, after his store, once tallest building in St Mary Street was overtaken by Market Buildings in 1886. For many years known as The Bodega.
Exterior
Exceedingly tall narrow 5-window frontage of 6 storeys. Rich Northern European Renaissance style, bathstone with granite colonettes. Broken pediment encloses plinth surmounted by urn; balustrade. Floors arranged as group of 3 windows flanked by single windows, articulated by bathstone pilasters, and granite pillars to each window, bathstone balustrades. On 2nd floor, shaped (swan-neck ) pediment; on first floor, oriel window. Partially corroded BOROUGH ARMS in vertical relief on 5 / 6 storey right-hand gable. Modern public house front to ground floor.
Interior
Reason for designation
Flamboyant Victorian public house. Group value.
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