Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
124 Bute Street
Butetown, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 20 May 1974
- Community
- Butetown
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.46614, -3.16641
- Cadw reference
- 13978
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
Opposite Dock Chambers.
History
Built c. 1847 part of terrace known as Powell Place which included six houses later numbered 120-125 Bute Street.
Exterior
Three houses each of two storeys over basement, and two window bays. Painted stucco, slate roofs with classicizing stucco chimneys. Deep dentil cornice. First floor sash windows with architraves and cornices. Band course at sill level. On ground floor, No 122 has doorway with bracketed cornice and to L, modern bay window. No 123 has similar doorway and tripartite wide window under bracketed cornice. No 124 also has similar doorway and semi-hexagonal bay with Doric pillars and heavy brackets under sills. Nos 122 and 124 retain iron railings to basement areas. All have six-panelled doors with rectangular overlights, those to Nos 122 & 123 retaining original glazing.
Reason for designation
Included as part of a group of buildings from early development of Butetown. Group value.
Nearby in the register
- 123 Bute StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Royal Bank of ScotlandCommercialunder 1 mi
- 122 Bute StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pillar Box Outside Royal Bank of ScotlandCommunicationsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.