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Warehouse Adjacent to Marquess of Bute's Warehouse

Butetown, Cardiff, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Butetown, Cardiff, designated on 20 August 1992.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of Warehouse Adjacent to Marquess of Bute's Warehouse, Butetown, Cardiff, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation
Listed building, Grade II
Broad class
Commercial
Date of designation
20 August 1992
Community
Butetown
Unitary authority
Cardiff
Country
Wales
Coordinates
51.47541, -3.17115
Cadw reference
13983

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)

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Cadw's description

Location

Sited well back from Lloyd George Avenue, formerly on N quayside of Bute West Dock (now filled in). N front visible from Herbert Street. Adjacent to Marquess of Bute's Warehouse, and with S front aligning with that of Marquess of Bute's Warehouse.

Exterior

Later C19 warehouse. Hipped slate roof, walls in snecked brown stone, with rounded corners. Three storeys. Five bays to S front, second and fourth bays full height loading bays, small gabled hood over fourth bay. Camber-headed windows with stone sills, largely retaining stone pane wooden glazing. Three bays facing W in similar style, L bay on ground floor obscured by connecting passage to adjacent warehouse to W. North elevation has ground floor obscured by added passage, but to R, 3 bays in same style as S front (ie top of loading bay flanked by 2 windows). To L, wing at right angles, 3 storeys, full-height loading bay flanked by camber-headed windows; side elevations blank, in red brick.
Interior has to W; 3 bays divided by 2 rows each of 3 cruciform-sectioned iron columns supporting wooden beams on which wooden floors are laid. To E, beyond wall, single row of 6 cast-iron columns continued into N wing supporting wooden floors in same way.

Reason for designation

Part of a group of 3 well preserved C19 warehouses on former N quayside of Bute West Dock. Group value.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Designated Historic Asset GIS Data, The Welsh Historic Environment Service (Cadw), 2026-09-07, licensed under the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Cadw, the Welsh Historic Environment Service · Open Government Licence v3.0
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