Flyhalf & Firkin is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 April 1999. Public house.
Flyhalf & Firkin
- WRENN ID
- waiting-finial-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1999
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Flyhalf & Firkin, Castle
- OS grid reference
- ST 181 762
- Coordinates
- 51.47893, -3.17941
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Flyhalf & Firkin is a public house dating from the 19th century, constructed in red brick with a decorative polychrome tile corner front and a slate roof. It features a corner entrance and above it, there is a head of Queen Victoria along with the inscription "The Queens Vaults." The front displays fine polychrome tiles in gold and green, a cornice, and a dark fascia that reads "Queens Vaults Wines Ind Coop & Co Ltd Entire."
On the Westgate Street side, there are two three-light windows, while the Golate side has three two-light windows and an additional doorway. The first-floor windows on Westgate Street are arranged in groups of two, two, two, three, and two. Between the floors, there is a band of diapered brickwork above a broad arch with two doorways to the left. On the Golate side, the first-floor windows are grouped as two plus one, and to the right, there is a lower block with five first-floor windows.
Local climate
Flyhalf & Firkin 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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