Wyndham Arcade-Nos 1-39 (Odd) & Nos 4-32 (Even) is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 June 1988. Bridge.

Wyndham Arcade-Nos 1-39 (Odd) & Nos 4-32 (Even)

WRENN ID
burning-gallery-heron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Constituency
Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
9 June 1988
Type
Bridge
Address
Wyndham Arcade-Nos 1-39 (Odd) & Nos 4-32 (Even), Castle
OS grid reference
ST 183 760
Coordinates
51.47766, -3.1765
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Wyndham Arcade, built in 1887, features a three-storey, seven-bay Italianate facade made of painted brick, with stone and stucco window bays and decorative elements. The building has slate roofs with ridge cresting and a single brick stack located towards the right end. At the top, there is a raised pedimented gable with a ball finial, tripartite arched windows, and flanking balustered parapets that connect to the second-floor windows, which are adorned with corbelled aedicules over a wide and high arcade entry. The inscription "WYNDHAM 1887 ARCADE" is displayed within an elliptical arch.

To the left, a four-bay pilastered frontage features corbelled bipartite bays that are linked vertically with arched heads, which once had ball finials that broke through the eaves cornice. The sash windows have small-pane glazing at the heads. The good floor cornice above the shop fronts is supported by paired brackets and has arched finials, although modern fascia boards have been added. A similar two-bay frontage is found on the right side.

The original arcade entrance is two-storey and has a mildly classical design, featuring a modern triangular glazed roof supported by arched cast-iron brackets with traceried spandrels and "hopper" capitals. The bracket cornice rises towards the St Mary Street end. The first floor primarily consists of three-light timber windows with small-pane upper glazing. The shop fascias have moulded cornices with fluted end brackets, and the pilastered shop fronts are fitted with moulded surrounds that include single mullions and roll-mounted sills, with offset doorways beneath fanlights. Most shop fronts have modern security shutters and boxes.

Local climate

Wyndham Arcade-Nos 1-39 (Odd) & Nos 4-32 (Even) 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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