Lunn Poly is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 April 1999. Commercial building. 2 related planning applications.
Lunn Poly
- WRENN ID
- eastward-truss-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1999
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- Lunn Poly, 31 St Mary Street, Castle, CF10 1AB
- OS grid reference
- ST 182 761
- Coordinates
- 51.47863, -3.17791
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Lunn Poly is a building designed in the Dutch Renaissance style, featuring three storeys plus an attic and a two-window elevation. The front is painted, likely over bathstone and stucco, with yellow brick chimneys. The attic includes a Dutch gabled dormer window on the right and a small gabled dormer on the left. On the right side, there is a two-storey splayed oriel window supported by Tuscan columns on the first floor. The left side has a window on the second floor, while the first floor features a window with a tall keystone that breaks into a pediment. The building has a modern shopfront.
Local climate
Lunn Poly sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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