Bar Emporium is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 May 1975. Fountain. 2 related planning applications.

Bar Emporium

WRENN ID
idle-solder-sedge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Constituency
Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 May 1975
Type
Fountain
Address
Bar Emporium, 89 St Mary Street, Castle, CF10 1DW
OS grid reference
ST 182 761
Coordinates
51.47826, -3.17843
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Bar Emporium is a narrow building dating from the 19th century, faced with pale ashlar on a granite plinth and designed in a round arched style. It features parapets above a slate hipped roof. The front on St Mary Street has three storeys and two bays, with a cornice above the first floor. The second and first floors have round-headed windows, with the second-floor windows showcasing carved spandrels and keystones, while the first-floor windows are separated by pilasters. There is a two-storey bay window on the right side, extending across the ground and first floors. On the left side of the ground floor, there is a flat-headed doorway with an architrave in red granite, set within a round-headed arch made of grey Bessbrook granite.

The Westgate Street front has similar dimensions and materials but consists of only two storeys and a basement. It features segmental-headed windows on the second floor and tall round-headed windows flanked by pilasters on the first floor. At the right end of the first floor, there is an oval lunette above a granite doorway, which is topped with a broken segmental pediment.

Local climate

Bar Emporium 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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