The Plymouth Arms P H is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 January 1963. Public house.
The Plymouth Arms P H
- WRENN ID
- gilded-pillar-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff West MP: Mr Alex Barros-Curtis (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 January 1963
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Plymouth Arms P H, St Fagans, St. Fagans
- OS grid reference
- ST 120 772
- Coordinates
- 51.48754, -3.26803
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Plymouth Arms Public House is a building likely constructed of rubble with pebbledash cladding and stone dressings, topped with a Welsh slate roof and red brick stacks. It is two storeys high and features stone mullion-and-transom windows with three lights throughout. The building has a stone plinth and a gabled middle wing, which includes a gable adorned with a moulded wood bargeboard featuring dentils and rendered strapwork panelling in the tympanum.
On the first floor, there are two three-light mullion-and-transom windows with leaded panes and a wide band of strapwork panelling below. The ground floor has a window on the right side and a shaped gabled Jacobean style porch on the left. The southern elevation of the middle wing has two three-light mullion-and-transom windows on the first floor and one on the ground floor.
To the south of the middle wing, there is a lower two-storey wing that dates from the early 1970s, featuring two three-light mullion-and-transom windows on both the first and ground floors, with strapwork panelling below the first-floor windows. To the north of the middle wing, there is an additional bay with a moulded cornice and parapet, which also has three-light mullion-and-transom windows on both floors, with the first-floor window featuring a moulded cornice. The rear includes various wings, with the western elevation of a 19th-century wing showcasing a sash window with three panes wide on the first floor and a four-pane wide sash window below.
Inside, the space has been opened up into a single bar area that maintains a consistent period character, primarily from alterations made in the early 1970s.
Local climate
The Plymouth Arms P H sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% 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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