Market Buildings (See Trinity St for Market) is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 April 1999. Commercial block. 8 related planning applications.

Market Buildings (See Trinity St for Market)

WRENN ID
still-bastion-elder
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 block
Address
Market Buildings (See Trinity St for Market), 5-7 St Mary Street, Castle, CF10 1AT
OS grid reference
ST 182 763
Coordinates
51.47993, -3.17915
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Market Buildings is a commercial block from the late 19th century, featuring five and six storeys with shops on the ground floor. It is constructed of yellow brick, adorned with extensive bathstone dressings that include relief carvings, and pink and grey granite shafts. The building is divided into three sections, highlighted by giant Corinthian pilasters topped with urns on the sides. The central section has four windows and is flanked by these pilasters, featuring an attic with four round-arched windows and a central pediment. There is a two-storey arch leading to the market entrance, which includes a phoenix motif, alongside bow windows supported by colonettes and a balustrade on the fourth floor.

The flanking blocks have dormers set behind a pierced iron screen and feature two groups of three windows on the third and fourth floors. The windows on the third floor have alternating segmental and triangular pediments, supported by granite shafts. Below this, there is a band of seven round-arched windows with pink granite shafts, above another band of seven square-headed windows with grey granite square shafts. The ground floor has modern shopfronts, which also extend into the arch where the first floor presents three bays, each featuring a tripartite window.

Local climate

Market Buildings (See Trinity St for Market) 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
  • Related listed building consents — 8 applications
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  • 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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