Entrance block to High Street Arcade is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 April 1999. A Victorian Entrance block.
Entrance block to High Street Arcade
- WRENN ID
- rough-string-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1999
- Type
- Entrance block
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Entrance block to High Street Arcade, Castle
- OS grid reference
- ST 182 764
- Coordinates
- 51.4811, -3.17885
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The entrance block to High Street Arcade is a three-storey building constructed of stucco, featuring three bays with pilasters and decorative banding. On the top floor, the central bay has three horned sash windows, while the outer bays each have two sash windows. The first floor showcases a central four-light camber-headed window, with the outer bays featuring three-light camber-headed windows; only the right window retains its original form with a mullion and transom window along with sash glazing. On the ground floor, there are large display windows flanking the entrance to the arcade, which serve the shops located within.
Local climate
Entrance block to High Street Arcade 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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