The Borough Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 April 1999. Public house.
The Borough Public House
- WRENN ID
- muted-storey-moss
- 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 house
- Address
- The Borough Public House, 8 St Mary Street, Castle, CF10 1AT
- OS grid reference
- ST 182 763
- Coordinates
- 51.47983, -3.1789
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Borough Public House is an exceedingly tall and narrow building with a five-window frontage and six storeys. It showcases a rich Northern European Renaissance style, constructed from bathstone with granite colonettes. The design features a broken pediment that encloses a plinth topped with an urn and a balustrade. The floors are arranged with a group of three windows flanked by single windows, all articulated by bathstone pilasters and granite pillars at each window, along with bathstone balustrades. Notably, the second floor has a shaped (swan-neck) pediment, and the first floor features an oriel window. There is a partially corroded BOROUGH ARMS in vertical relief on the right-hand gable of the fifth and sixth storeys. The ground floor has a modern public house front.
Local climate
The Borough Public House 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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