Entrance block to Royal 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 Royal Arcade
- WRENN ID
- young-shingle-rook
- 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
- Address
- Entrance block to Royal Arcade, Castle
- OS grid reference
- ST 184 761
- Coordinates
- 51.47882, -3.17611
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The entrance block to the Royal Arcade is a three-storey structure featuring a polychrome front made of Pennant stone, with dressings and bands in bathstone and red brick. The ends of the building have red brick pilasters. On the second floor, there is a central group of three windows with Italianate Gothic heads, all with sash glazing. The first floor has a group of three square-headed windows, with single windows on either end, also featuring sash glazing. The ground floor includes a central entrance to the arcade, which is flanked by shops and has a canopy over the entrance.
Local climate
Entrance block to Royal 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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