High Street Arcade is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 April 1999. Arcade.
High Street Arcade
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-keystone-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1999
- Type
- Arcade
- Address
- High Street Arcade, Castle, CF10 1AW
- OS grid reference
- ST 181 763
- Coordinates
- 51.48059, -3.17985
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
High Street Arcade is an entrance block located on High Street, designed in an eclectic style that combines Classical and Gothic elements with some Arabic influences. The building features a painted front made of brick and bathstone, with a Radyr stone plinth. It stands three storeys tall and includes a dentil cornice and relief banding. The façade consists of three bays, with the central bay set forward and flanked by pilasters. The top floor has two camber-headed sash windows in each bay. On the first floor, the central windows are set back behind a crocketed Gothic arch, while each side has a group of three sash windows framed by colonettes, featuring reliefs in round-arched heads. The ground floor has shop fronts that are set forward, flanking the entrance to the arcade. Above the shops, there are bathstone parapets adorned with relief arcading. The arcade itself curves through to Working Street and is numbered up to 34, with odd numbers on the north side and even numbers on the south side. It has a glass roof supported by triangular trusses.
Local climate
High Street 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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