Entrance Block to Castle Arcade is a Grade II* listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 April 1999. Commercial.
Entrance Block to Castle Arcade
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-corridor-auburn
- 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
- OS grid reference
- ST 181 763
- Coordinates
- 51.48059, -3.18032
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Entrance Block to Castle Arcade is a four-storey building featuring nine windows arranged in a pattern of 2-2-1-2-2 within shallow bays. It has horned sash windows and is constructed from pressed yellow brick with painted bathstone dressings. The roof is slate, and the end bays are topped with steeply-pitched pavilion roofs that include round-arched dormer windows. A bracketed cornice with a medallion frieze adorns the top. The top floor has round-arched windows, while the first and second floors feature camber-headed windows with colonettes and relief aprons. The centre of the building showcases a two-storey splayed oriel window on the first and second floors. The entrance to the arcade is round-arched and includes relief spandrels, with modern shopfronts on either side.
Local climate
Entrance Block to Castle 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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