Frontage of former Marments Department Store at Queen's West Shopping Precinct is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 April 1999. Department store front.

Frontage of former Marments Department Store at Queen's West Shopping Precinct

WRENN ID
winding-joist-poplar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Constituency
Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 April 1999
Type
Department store front
Address
Frontage of former Marments Department Store at Queen's West Shopping Precinct, Castle
OS grid reference
ST 182 765
Coordinates
51.48179, -3.17829
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The former Marments Department Store at Queen's West Shopping Precinct features a Portland stone frontage with five bays. The upper levels showcase a giant order of fluted Roman Doric columns, with unfluted pillars at the ends. The entablature includes decorative bosses on the frieze, a dentil cornice, and a parapet. The bays are glazed with a classicising metal framework, painted to imitate verdigris, and consist of three storeys of tripartite windows adorned with wreaths, key patterns, and pediments above the first-floor windows, although the centre bay windows have been replaced.

On the ground floor, end pilasters with cartouches displaying the monogram "LM" frame a modern shopfront. The building has been modernised.

Local climate

Frontage of former Marments Department Store at Queen's West Shopping Precinct 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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