Sportshoe is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 April 1999. A C17 Commercial. 1 related planning application.
Sportshoe
- WRENN ID
- quiet-render-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1999
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- Sportshoe, 108 St Mary Street, Castle
- OS grid reference
- ST 182 762
- Coordinates
- 51.47929, -3.17909
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Sportshoe is a narrow, four-storey building with an attic, featuring a bathstone front and three windows. Designed in the Dutch Renaissance style, the attic includes a Dutch gable with three windows. The third floor showcases pilasters and a deep frieze with relief decoration. The second floor mirrors this style, with a pediment above the central window, while the first floor also follows suit, featuring a swan neck pediment. The ground level has a modern shopfront.
Local climate
Sportshoe 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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