Borough Chambers is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 April 1999. Public building. 5 related planning applications.
Borough Chambers
- WRENN ID
- fading-truss-primrose
- 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 building
- Address
- Borough Chambers, 1 Wharton Street, Castle, CF10 1AG
- OS grid reference
- ST 182 762
- Coordinates
- 51.47928, -3.17794
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Borough Chambers is a three-storey building featuring a four-window block. It is constructed with yellow and red brick bands, complemented by bathstone oriel windows. The slate roof is topped with tall red brick chimneys. On the first and second floors, there are four bathstone oriel windows supported by brackets, with relief aprons situated between the floors. On the ground floor, to the right, there is a doorway with a bracketed hood and an inscription reading "Borough Chambers." To the left, there are modernised shopfronts positioned between stone pilasters that have floral capitals, along with brackets adorned with garlands leading up to the cornice.
Local climate
Borough Chambers 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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