Prebendal House is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 May 1975. House.

Prebendal House

WRENN ID
broken-vestry-laurel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Constituency
Cardiff West MP: Mr Alex Barros-Curtis (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 May 1975
Type
House
Address
Prebendal House, Llandaff
OS grid reference
ST 155 781
Coordinates
51.4962, -3.21845
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Prebendal House is a building with roughcast rendering on stone rubble walls and a Welsh slate roof. The original structure, located on the east side facing the Cathedral, is a single storey featuring a central six-panelled door with an architrave and a triangular hood supported by brackets. On either side of the door are sash windows with six over six panes. The rear elevation, facing the lane, is two storeys high and includes an old external chimney breast, with modern windows on either side of the chimney. The roof is hipped.

The north gable end has three small paned casements, likely dating from 1926, similar to the windows on the rear. Attached to this is a wing built at right angles in 1926, which features a doorway from around 1700 with a Tuscan surround, flanked by small windows. There is also an archway leading to a lower level on the right, followed by the rubble walling of the 1950s Processional Way. The end elevation facing the lane has three small paned windows below and three cross-framed casements above.

Additionally, there is a two-storey wing made of stone rubble with hardwood windows that was added in the 1980s at the east end of this range. This wing has nearly continuous lights to the Processional Way on this side and connects to St. David's Chapel, with further details available in the Cathedral description.

During a resurvey, only part of the east wing, built in 1926 and partially rebuilt in the 1950s by George Pace as part of the post-World War II restoration of the Cathedral, was visible. The Processional Way includes fitted cupboards and an 18th-century stone urn, which is the only remaining relic of the John Wood "temple" that once stood within the ruined Cathedral in the 18th and early 19th centuries.

Local climate

Prebendal 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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