Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Dead End Saloon
Butetown, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 19 May 1975
- Community
- Butetown
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.46424, -3.16511
- Cadw reference
- 13952
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Part of terrace facing E towards former Bute West Dock Basin.
History
Nos 5-9 Bute Crescent date from c. 1840; amongst the earliest domestic buildings in Butetown.
Exterior
Three storeys over basement. Cornice and first floor band course. Two window stucco front, rusticated on ground floor. Upper floors have sash windows, horned, with upper sashes small pane. Second floor windows have lost their architraves. First floor windows have lost architraves but retain cornices. Panelled entrance door (modern) with rectangular fanlight and cornice above. Basement area has cast iron railings.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with other buildings in Crescent.
Nearby in the register
- 6 Bute CrescentCommercialunder 1 mi
- Eli JenkinsCommercialunder 1 mi
- 8 Bute CrescentCommercialunder 1 mi
- Ocean BuildingCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.