47&48 St Mary Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 April 1999. Pair of shops. 1 related planning application.

47&48 St Mary Street

WRENN ID
odd-pillar-frost
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Constituency
Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 April 1999
Type
Pair of shops
Address
47&48 St Mary Street, Castle, CF10 1AD
OS grid reference
ST 183 760
Coordinates
51.47786, -3.17731
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

47 and 48 St Mary Street is a pair of shops with offices above, featuring three storeys plus an attic. The building is constructed of buff ashlar, which is channelled up to the second floor. The facade is articulated by Corinthian columns. The attic includes a very large pair of oculi dormers and a parapet balustrade topped with urn finials. The second floor has three-light mullion and transom windows with pediments above the cornice. On the first floor, there are four-light mullion and transom windows, each with pediments that display floral low relief. The ground floors feature shop fronts.

Local climate

47&48 St Mary Street 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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  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
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  • 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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