Wellington's Cafe Bar is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 April 1999. Public house. 1 related planning application.

Wellington's Cafe Bar

WRENN ID
fallow-jade-stoat
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Constituency
Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 April 1999
Type
Public house
Address
Wellington's Cafe Bar, 42 the Hayes, Castle, CF10 1AJ
OS grid reference
ST 184 761
Coordinates
51.47838, -3.1759
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Wellington's Cafe Bar is a three-storey public house built from pressed red brick with a slate roof. It features a seven-window front facing The Hayes, arranged in three bays of 3-2-3, and is highlighted by pilasters. Above the cornice, there is a central aedicule with the inscription "Duke of Wellington," topped with a pinnacle and flanked by urns. The top floor has round-headed windows, while the first floor has camber-headed windows with sash glazing. On the ground floor, there are three broad camber-headed windows with tall key stones that extend to a string course beneath the first-floor windows, along with two doorways that have broken pediments. To the left, there is a similar splayed corner bay with a glazed doorway, and a matching two-window elevation facing Caroline Street.

Local climate

Wellington's Cafe Bar 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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