Brains is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 April 1999. Commercial building. 3 related planning applications.
Brains
- WRENN ID
- fallow-crypt-spring
- 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
- Brains, 49 St Mary Street, Castle, CF10 1FG
- OS grid reference
- ST 183 760
- Coordinates
- 51.47788, -3.17704
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Brains is a tall building with four storeys and two windows, constructed with Portland stone facing and primarily featuring sash glazing. The building has a pediment with an oculus and channeled pilaster strips at the ends. The top floor includes thermal windows with keystones, while the second floor has tripartite windows that are situated under cornices. On the first floor, there are tripartite windows with keystones that rise into open pediments. The ground floor is tall and banded, featuring two arches, with a window on the left and a doorway on the right.
Local climate
Brains 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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