Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
6 Bute Crescent
Butetown, Cardiff, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Butetown, Cardiff, designated on 19 May 1975.
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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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 263 Cardiff (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 110. Cardiff & Mouth of the Severn. (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.