Park Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 June 1974. Hotel.
Park Hotel
- WRENN ID
- dim-turret-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 25 June 1974
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Park Hotel, Castle
- OS grid reference
- ST 185 766
- Coordinates
- 51.48286, -3.17416
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Park Hotel is a four-storey hotel building designed in the French Renaissance style. It features Bathstone ashlar with Pennant stone pilasters, while the ground floor is made of grey Forest of Dean ashlar. The building has slate roofs, with a lead roof on the central pavilion. Attics are present in the end and centre bays of both the Queen Street and Park Place elevations. The attic windows are pedimented with separate roofs behind, and the end bays have a high-pitched roof with cresting, while the centre bay is topped with a squared domed pavilion roof.
The Queen Street elevation consists of nine bays, with triple windows in each bay except for the centre bay, which has five lights. Rusticated pilasters are present, along with an ashlar eaves cornice, an ashlar entablature above the second floor, an ashlar frieze between the first and second floors, an ashlar panelled band above the ground floor, and ashlar window dressings. All windows are arcaded, with top floor windows featuring curved heads and keystones set in similarly headed arcading. The second floor windows are flat-headed and set in flat-headed arcades, while the first floor windows are flat-headed and set in a segmental-headed arcade. The end and centre bays each have centre lights that form a bowed oriel window on the first and second floors.
The ground floor shop fronts, numbered 89-107 (odd) in Queen Street, are modern but are set within the original grey ashlar piers. The Park Place elevation is similar to that of Queen Street, with a modern entrance to "The Scrum" bar, although it retains the original ground floor door and window openings. The main entrance is round-headed and features a recent iron canopy, along with a broad entrance to the rear car park.
The hotel has recently been refurbished and modernised. Original interiors include a 19th-century wooden staircase, and function rooms such as the Whitehall Suite, Princess Suite, and Duchess Suite retain period detailing, including doors, decorative ceilings, and plaster panelling on the walls to varying degrees.
Local climate
Park Hotel 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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