Hodge House is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 April 1999. Commercial building. 36 related planning applications.
Hodge House
- WRENN ID
- rooted-chancel-birch
- 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 building
- Address
- Hodge House, 114-5 St Mary Street, Castle, CF10 1EB
- OS grid reference
- ST 181 762
- Coordinates
- 51.47967, -3.17972
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Hodge House is a large commercial building faced with Portland stone, designed in a classicising style with French details. It features decorative elements such as cartouches, garlands, and relief window aprons. The building stands six storeys tall, including an attic, and is topped by a square clock tower, all set on a grey plinth made of Forest of Dean stone.
The St Mary Street side has 11 bays, with seven of these featuring tripartite "Chicago" windows. The second and tenth bays have paired windows, while the narrow end bays have single windows. The building is crowned by a balustraded parapet with a central window that is stepped up. The top storey has cornices above the windows, and the central bay is advanced, featuring an open pediment and a grey stone entrance portal with an in antis treatment. The ground and first floors are channelled.
On the Guildhall Place side, there are three bays that match the front, including the attic, followed by a shallow splayed bay with a broad segmentally-arched doorway. There are also two bays without an attic and a slightly advanced one-window bay. The building has been modernised.
Local climate
Hodge House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 36 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- 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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