Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
8 Mount Stuart Square
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
- 51.46514, -3.16753
- Cadw reference
- 13995
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
To right of Nos 6 & 7 set into a line commercial properties near the S nd of the square; opposite the former Coal Exchange.
History
Circa 1858. Probably by Alexander Roos, architect to Bute Estate. Original houses from Mount Stuart Square development later adapted for business use.
Exterior
Each of three storeys, one window. Slate roofs, brick chimneys. Stucco, with some scribing in imitation of ashlar, rusticated ground floor with shallow plinth. Cornice and parapet. Second floor windows broad tripartite openings articulated by Doric pilasters and Venetian type with tripartite openings articulated by Doric pilasters and shell motif in small tympanum above. Cornice over rusticated ground floor. Ground floor of No 8 has square-headed doorway and to its R large three-light shop window with modern round arched glazing.
Ground floor of No 9 has bathstone later C19 commercial front (on grey stone plinth) dated 1889. C16/C17 Flemish Renaissance style, by W D Blessley. architect. Front consists of deep entablature with cornice. 'Perch Buildings' in bronze lettering on frieze, architrave with decorated keystones and cartouche over doorway, where entablature breaks forward, and is surmounted by small triangular pediment. Doorway flanked by pilasters with swagged capitals. To R of door, 3 windows with bulbous columns. Decorated panels in plinth below.
Reason for designation
A significant survivor of the oldest domestic buildings in Mount Stuart Square, converted to commercial use. Group value.
Nearby in the register
- 9 Mount Stuart SquareCommercialunder 1 mi
- 7 Mount Stuart SquareCommercialunder 1 mi
- 6 Mount Stuart SquareCommercialunder 1 mi
- Kilsby and WilliamsCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.