Full Report for Listed Buildings


Summary Description of a Listed Buildings


Reference Number
21709
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
30/04/1999  
Date of Amendment
30/04/1999  
Name of Property
Andrews Buildings  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Cardiff  
Community
Castle  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
318487  
Northing
176608  
Street Side
N  
Location
Large block on N side of Queen Street, opposite Cathedral walk entrance to St David's Centre.  

Description


Broad Class
Commercial  
Period
 

History
Dated 1896. Architect Edward Webb. Built by Solomon Andrews (1835-1908), prominent Cardiff entrepreneur. Part of Andrew's ambitions to improve Cardiff by providing modern business facilities. Originally included David Evans department store, an arcade, Andrews Hall, and Andrews Small Hall, and business chambers. Andrews' Hall later rebuilt as cinema.  

Exterior
Comprises Nos 63 to 77 Queen Street. Large 4-storey block, free Renaissance style faced in bathstone; horned sash glazing. Square-headed windows to top floor, generally camber-headed windows to second floor, and round-headed windows to first floor with five 2-storey oriel windows on first and second floors. Frontage, with parapet with small pediments reads as 9 bays. From L, three windows (cinema entrance below), then two storey oriel window, then entrance to Andrews Chambers, then two storey oriel window, then three windows, another two storey oriel window, followed by entrance to former arcade, a pair of two storey oriel windows, and a 4-window bay. On ground floor, generally modern shopfronts and cinema entrance. Entrances to Andrews Chambers and former Andrews Arcade both have oculi at first floor level; chambers have pedimented stone doorway with date; arcade entrance simplified.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Listed primarily for its extensive Queen Street frontage; one of the most ambitious developments of Solomon Andrews, Cardiff's most ambitious entrepreneur.  

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