Antique stores in Cardiff
Antique shops are history you can buy. Cardiff, Wales has 23 mapped right now. That's 23 antique shops mapped around Cardiff. Specialties differ enormously — furniture, jewellery, ephemera — so the shop that matches your interest matters more than the count. Condition is everything and provenance is king — ask about both before anything expensive.
This guide covers every antique store we could verify in and around Cardiff (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Bridgend Antiques and Jewellery and Paraphenia, plus Antiques Etc. If an antique shop's missing from Cardiff's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.
The Cardiff antique lineup
23 mapped within about 40 km:
Bridgend Antiques and Jewellery
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Bridgend Antiques and Jewellery is Antique store.
Paraphenia
Antique store
Paraphenia is Antique store.
Antiques Etc
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Antiques Etc — Antique store.
Chatelaine
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Chatelaine is Antique store on 14 West Street, Minehead. Chatelaine also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as We-Fr 10:00-16:45; Sa 10:00-16:46; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
14 West Street, Minehead, TA24 6SN
Hours: We-Fr 10:00-16:45; Sa 10:00-16:46
Phone: +44 1643 821651
Chris's Crackers Junk Shop
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Chris's Crackers Junk Shop — Antique store, found on Townsend Garage Main Road in Minehead. Also worth knowing about Chris's Crackers Junk Shop: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 10:00-16:00.
Townsend Garage Main Road, Minehead, TA24 6NH
Hours: Mo-Su 10:00-16:00
Lock Stock & Sparrow
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Lock Stock & Sparrow — Antique store. Also worth knowing about Lock Stock & Sparrow: the map lists its hours as We-Fr 11:00-16:00; Sa 11:00-15:00.
Hours: We-Fr 11:00-16:00; Sa 11:00-15:00
Bolly Barn
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Bolly Barn is Antique store.
Burnhams
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Burnhams — Antique store.
The Furniture Room
Antique store
The Furniture Room is Antique store.
V Buy
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V Buy is Antique store on 55 High Street, Blackwood. V Buy also notes on the map: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
55 High Street, Blackwood, NP12 1BA
Phone: +44 7974 771 753
Lowry Antiques
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Lowry Antiques is Antique store on 88 Dunraven Street, Tonypandy.
88 Dunraven Street, Tonypandy, CF40 1AP
Modern Antiques
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Modern Antiques — Antique store, found on 121 Saint Georges Road in Bristol. Also worth knowing about Modern Antiques: it has a website with more detail.
121 Saint Georges Road, Bristol, BS1 5UW
Bristol Brocante
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Bristol Brocante — Antique store, found on 123 Saint Georges Road in Bristol. Also worth knowing about Bristol Brocante: it has a website with more detail.
123 Saint Georges Road, Bristol, BS1 5UW
Cardiff Antiques Centre
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Cardiff Antiques Centre is Antique store.
I M Chaney Antiques
Antique store
I M Chaney Antiques is Antique store on 25 North View, Bristol.
25 North View, Bristol, BS6 7PT
Cotham Antiques
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Cotham Antiques is Antique store on Cotham Hill, Bristol.
Cotham Hill, Bristol, BS6 6JZ
Rachel's & Michael's Antiques
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Rachel's & Michael's Antiques — Antique store, found on 30 Princess Victoria Street in Bristol.
30 Princess Victoria Street, Bristol, BS8 4BZ
Focus on the Past
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Focus on the Past is Antique store on 25 Waterloo Street.
25 Waterloo Street
The Pumping Station
Antique store
The Pumping Station — Antique store, found on Penarth Road in Cardiff. Also worth knowing about The Pumping Station: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 10:00-17:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
Penarth Road, Cardiff, CF11 8TT
Hours: Mo-Su 10:00-17:00
Phone: +44 29 2022 1085
Weston Indoor Market
Antique store
Weston Indoor Market — Antique store, found on 116 High Street in Weston-super-Mare.
116 High Street, Weston-super-Mare, BS23 1HP
Coles
Antique store
Coles is Antique store on 9 Boulevard, Weston-Super-Mare. Coles also notes on the map: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
9 Boulevard, Weston-Super-Mare, BS23 1NN
Phone: +44 1934886653
Vale Vintage
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Vale Vintage — Antique store, found on Broad Street in Barry.
Broad Street, Barry
Bert & May
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Bert & May — Antique store, found on 5 The Mall in Bristol.
5 The Mall, Bristol, BS8 4DP
What the map tells us about antique stores in Cardiff
4 of the 23 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — antique shops keep civilised hours, so the listed times are usually good.
4 have websites listed. Worth a look for specialty areas — every dealer leans somewhere.
The Cardiff antique trail
Making a day of it in Cardiff? Work this order: Bridgend Antiques and Jewellery, Paraphenia, Antiques Etc, Chatelaine on 14 West Street, Chris's Crackers Junk Shop on Townsend Garage Main Road, Lock Stock & Sparrow, Bolly Barn, and Burnhams. That's the antique trail in one sensible loop, no backtracking. 15 more are listed below.
Antique hunting tips for Cardiff
A few things worth knowing before you work through Cardiff's antique stores:
- Condition is everything at Bridgend Antiques and Jewellery. Original condition beats restored, and honest wear beats damage. Learn the difference before spending real money.
- Learn to spot married pieces at Paraphenia. Furniture assembled from mismatched parts — 'married' — is worth far less. Check that everything matches in age and style.
- Check the back and underside. Construction tells the truth: dovetails, screws, saw marks. Flip it over (carefully) before you decide.
- Check for woodworm (honestly). Old furniture sometimes has it. Look for the telltale holes, ask the dealer, and know it's treatable but real.
Good to know
We searched about 40 km around Cardiff — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new antique store in Cardiff can take a while to appear. The 23 above are only as current as the community map. A antique store that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.
We don't list prices or authenticate pieces — that's the dealer's job in person. What we list is the where: real shops, verified by real mappers.
If you run one of the 23 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.
Antique store listings for Cardiff: 23 mapped from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Photos from Wikimedia Commons contributors; individual photo credits appear in captions. Listing data was last refreshed automatically — verify hours before visiting.