Newt & Cucumber is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 April 1999. Commercial.

Newt & Cucumber

WRENN ID
lone-gable-thunder
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
Address
Newt & Cucumber, Castle
OS grid reference
ST 183 762
Coordinates
51.47935, -3.17781
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Newt & Cucumber is a three-storey building with an attic, featuring six windows. It is constructed of yellow brick with extensive bathstone dressings, which include window architraves, entablatures, and pilasters. The building has a bracketed cornice and a parapet that is interrupted by dormers with segmental pediments. On the top floor, the left bay contains a tripartite window, while the other bays have 2-light mullion and transom windows topped with curvilinear pediments. The first floor features an oriel window in the left bay, with the other bays having 3-light mullion and transom windows; however, the fourth bay has a 2-light window with a curved stone balcony. Below this, there is an entrance to the chambers, which is flanked by modernised shopfronts that are articulated by banded stone pilasters supporting a bracketed cornice. A similar architectural treatment is found on the left return in Bakers' Row.

Local climate

Newt & Cucumber 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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