Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
33 West Bute Street
Butetown, Cardiff, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Butetown, Cardiff, designated on 27 June 1991.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 27 June 1991
- Community
- Butetown
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.46638, -3.16673
- Cadw reference
- 14021
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
History
Part of a development which includes 126-132 Bute Street dating from 1850-1851, and once known as Britannia Buildings. Contractors were Hemingway and Pearson, involved in building Britannia Bridge over Menai Strait, and Bute East Dock. Ground floor altered for commercial use later C19.
Exterior
Stucco front, three storeys, two window bays. Projecting cornice. Second floor windows with small pane hornless sashes (3 panes over 6). First floor windows with horned large pane sashes, and architraves with cornices over. Blocking course at sill level. On Ground floor, deeply set entrance doorway to L and wide office window with tripartite frame. Door and window under continuous bracketed cornice.
Reason for designation
Listed as part of early terrace on important site in Butetown and for group value with listed buildings opposite.
Nearby in the register
- 34 & 35Commercialunder 1 mi
- Pillar Box Outside Royal Bank of ScotlandCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- 36 & 37Commercialunder 1 mi
- Royal Bank of ScotlandCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.