Ristorante Il Padrino is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 May 1975. Restaurant. 2 related planning applications.
Ristorante Il Padrino
- WRENN ID
- little-window-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1975
- Type
- Restaurant
- Address
- Ristorante Il Padrino, 75 St Mary Street, Castle, CF10 1FA
- OS grid reference
- ST 183 760
- Coordinates
- 51.47715, -3.1774
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Ristorante Il Padrino is an elaborate Italianate Gothic style building constructed in 1886. It is built from Pennant stone with dressings in bathstone and orange ironstone. The building has three storeys and features three gabled bays. The gables are crocketed and diapered, with arches that enclose lozenges; the central lozenge displays the date "1886".
On the second floor, the central bay contains a 2-light Gothic window, while the outer bays each have a single Gothic window, all adorned with polychrome heads and orange colonettes topped with floral capitals. There are stone balconies featuring pierced quatrefoils. The first floor has a central oriel window, with a band of Gothic windows above it; these also have ironstone colonettes. Each side of the oriel window features a similar window. The ends of the first floor are decorated with colonettes that are topped by griffins.
On the ground floor, the main entrance door on the left has paired granite columns set against a painted stone architrave, with mosaic roundels depicting the Four Seasons, although these are obscured by a later fascia board. There is a similar entrance to Toni's Bar on the right.
Local climate
Ristorante Il Padrino 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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