Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
6 Bute Crescent
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
- 51.46420, -3.16511
- Cadw reference
- 13953
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
Four storeys over basement. Cornice and first floor band course. Added floor above cornice. Two window stucco front, rusticated on ground floor. Mainly small pane sash windows, hornless. Top floor has own cornice and balustrade and windows without architraves articulated by pilaster bands. Second floor windows with architraves. First floor windows with architraves and bracketed cornice above. To right, broad tripartite window with stucco voussoirs. Basement area surounded by cast iron railings.
Reason for designation
Listed as amongst the earliest domestic buildings in Butetown, on important site facing dock basin. Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Dead End SaloonCommercialunder 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.