Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
81253
Building Number
4
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/05/1975
Date of Amendment
30/06/2003
Name of Property
4 High Street
Address
4 High Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Llandaff
Town
Cardiff
Locality
Llandaff
Easting
315517
Northing
178009
Street Side
Location
Part of the group of important buildings at the south-west entrance to The Cathedral Green.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Built together with No 2 (qv) in c1863 as a home and premises for Mr. Seaborn the butcher. Possibly designed by John Prichard.
Exterior
The left-hand part of a two storey splayed street front with two bays facing north-east (No. 2 qv) and two bays facing south-east (No. 4). Built of polychromatic stone rubble and Bath stone ashlar quoins and dressings; carved ashlar brackets to eaves, Welsh slate roof, with chimney stacks set low on the rear slope, cylindrical terracotta pots. Trefoil headed window to each bay on first floor; pointed doorways and flat headed windows on ground floor. No. 4 has two bays, the left-hand one with a flat headed window with a pointed doorway to right of it. The right-hand bay has a C20 elliptically headed shop window, seven panes wide with a roll-mould surround; with pointed stone doorway to the right of it. This window is apparently an alteration to the original design but the single relieving arch above suggests that it did previously have a large single shop window. Rear elevation not seen.
Interior
Interior not inspected at resurvey.
Reason for designation
Included as a possible design by John Prichard and for its group value with the other listed buildings around The Cathedral Green and on the High Street.
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