Andrews Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 April 1999. Commercial building.
Andrews Buildings
- WRENN ID
- scarred-clay-myrtle
- 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
- Andrews Buildings, Castle, CF10 2BE
- OS grid reference
- ST 184 766
- Coordinates
- 51.48253, -3.17526
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Andrews Buildings, located at Nos 63 to 77 Queen Street, is a large four-storey block built in the free Renaissance style and faced in bathstone. The building features horned sash glazing, with square-headed windows on the top floor, generally camber-headed windows on the second floor, and round-headed windows on the first floor. There are five two-storey oriel windows on the first and second floors.
The frontage, which has a parapet with small pediments, consists of nine bays. Starting from the left, there are three windows (with a cinema entrance below), followed by a two-storey oriel window, the entrance to Andrews Chambers, another two-storey oriel window, three more windows, another two-storey oriel window, the entrance to the former arcade, a pair of two-storey oriel windows, and a four-window bay. On the ground floor, there are generally modern shopfronts and the cinema entrance. The entrances to Andrews Chambers and the former Andrews Arcade both feature oculi at the first-floor level; the chambers have a pedimented stone doorway with a date, while the arcade entrance is simplified.
Local climate
Andrews Buildings 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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