Moorlands Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 8 April 1997. Public house.
Moorlands Hotel
- WRENN ID
- drifting-beam-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 8 April 1997
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Moorlands Hotel, 217 Carlisle Street, Splott
- OS grid reference
- ST 204 771
- Coordinates
- 51.4877, -3.14769
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Moorlands Hotel is a public house designed in the Flemish Renaissance style, built in 1896. It stands two storeys high with attics, constructed from Pennant stone with freestone dressings, and features painted cornices and banding. The roof is slate, with brick chimneys that have stone cornices.
The building has a prominent central corner bay that rises to three storeys and is topped with a pavilion roof. This bay features a strapwork frieze displaying the date "1896" and a three-light window at the top level. Below this, there is a two-storey bowed bay window with mullion and transom windows, accented by low-relief banding that includes the inscription "Moorlands Hotel." To the left of the centre, there are four windows, with two gabled dormer windows at the attic level. The first-floor windows are grouped in pairs within architraves, each topped with small pediments and relief aprons. The ground floor features a round-arched doorway with keystones and a glazed overlight, alongside three sash windows in architraves with keystones.
The left end bay is designed as a 'frontispiece' with an elaborate stepped gable in the Flemish Renaissance style, complete with a swan-neck pediment, volutes, urn finials, and relief panels. Flanking pilasters enclose a three-light mullion and transom window at the first floor, while the ground floor has a broad archway that contains a door and windows.
To the right of the central corner bay, there are two first-floor windows, with a single dormer at the attic level. These are paired on the left, while the ground floor features a round-arched window in an architrave with keystones.
The right end bay has a gable similar to that of the left end bay but is broader. It features an elaborate pediment at the first floor, with three windows, the central window flanked by pilasters. On the ground floor, there are two arches; the left arch is treated as a window, while the right archway leads to the rear yard.
Local climate
Moorlands Hotel 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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