Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
20 Mount Stuart Square
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
- 51.46490, -3.16851
- Cadw reference
- 14002
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
At the western end of this side of the square stepped down from Baltic House to left, facing the former Coal Exchange.
History
Late 1850s. Original house from Mount Stuart Square development, perhaps by Alexander Roos, architect to Bute Estate. Adapted for business use in later C19.
Exterior
Former house facing N of three storeys, one window-bay. Slate roof, brick chimney, stuccoed. Stucco , rusticated on ground floor with some scribing imitating ashlar on upper floors. Shallow plinth. Cornice and parapet, cornices also at first floor and second floor level. Second floor window broad tripartite, with horned sashes. First floor window of Venetian type with tripartite opening articulate by Doric pilasters and shell motiff in small tympanum above. Ground floor largely unaltered and has segmental-headed doorway with stucco voussoirs, and to its left broad window.
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
- Marine HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
- Baltic HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
- Mount Stuart HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
- Aberdare HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.