Wimpey is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 April 1999. Shop. 4 related planning applications.
Wimpey
- WRENN ID
- calm-corbel-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1999
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- Wimpey, 11 St John Street, Castle, CF10 1GL
- OS grid reference
- ST 182 764
- Coordinates
- 51.48102, -3.17883
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a three-storey shop building known as Wimpey, constructed with stucco. It has three bays featuring pilasters and decorative banding, topped with a parapet. The top floor includes three horned sash windows. On the first floor, there is a four-light camber-headed window designed as a mullion and transom window with sash glazing. The ground floor has a modern shop front.
Local climate
Wimpey 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 — 3 transactions since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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