Grand Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 April 1999. Hotel.

Grand Hotel

WRENN ID
silver-cobalt-pine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Constituency
Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 April 1999
Type
Hotel
Address
Grand Hotel, Castle
OS grid reference
ST 180 763
Coordinates
51.48038, -3.18203
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Grand Hotel is a French Renaissance style hotel built in the 19th century. It features a bathstone front, with the lower levels painted, and stands four storeys tall. The central section has a three-window frontispiece topped with a steep pavilion roof adorned with wrought iron cresting. The frontispiece includes pedimented central windows and is set forward at the balcony level. Below this, there is an entrance arch with the inscription "Grand Hotel" and an iron porch.

On either side of the frontispiece, at the attic level, are three round-arched dormers with ball finials. The top floor has three windows, and below these are three round-headed door-windows with glazing above, along with a bracketed wrought-iron balcony. The doorways at the ends are topped with steep pediments.

Local climate

Grand Hotel 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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