Quarry Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 13 January 1976. Nursing home.
Quarry Hill House
- WRENN ID
- eternal-plinth-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff East MP: Jo Stevens (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1976
- Type
- Nursing home
- Address
- Quarry Hill House, Rumney
- OS grid reference
- ST 227 805
- Coordinates
- 51.51897, -3.11438
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Quarry Hill House is a gentleman's residence that has been converted into a nursing home. The building is entirely rendered and features a shallow pitched hipped roof covered with Welsh slate. It has two yellow brick ridge stacks, boarded overhanging eaves, an eaves band, end pilasters, and a plinth. Most of the windows are 18-pane sashes with narrow glazing bars, and the ground floor windows have moulded architraves while the first floor windows have shaped sills.
The entrance front has three bays, with a central doorway that includes an architrave and cornice supported by consoles, a panelled door, and an overlight. There is a large prostyle portico that once had a balustraded parapet, but only remnants of this remain. The garden elevation on the south side has seven bays, though a 1920 photograph shows only four of these, with the two outer bays projecting and each topped with a hipped roof. The ground floor windows in the two centre recessed bays are French casements, also featuring moulded architraves and cornices on consoles.
To the west, there is a three-bay extension that has similar windows and a narrow ground floor doorway. The north elevation includes a recessed bay situated between the gable end of the frontage and a parallel wing, which contains a wide tripartite staircase window. The interior has been completely refurbished following extensive fire damage. A previous listing description mentions a cellar with a flagged stone floor and a cellar staircase.
Local climate
Quarry Hill House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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