Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Mount Stuart Graving Dock No.2
Butetown, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Maritime
- Date of designation
- 20 August 1992
- Locality
- Inner Harbour Area
- Community
- Butetown
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.46204, -3.16709
- Cadw reference
- 14047
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
Former Mountstuart Shiprepairing Yard is between Stuart Street and Dudley Street. Graving Dock No 2 is the central dock of the group of 3 dry docks in the yard.
History
This dock is on the 2nd Edition OS Map, surveyed 1898-99, but not on the 1st Edition Map, surveyed 1876-78.
Exterior
Dry dock approx. 150m long by 30m wide. Sea walls of dock in massive blocks of grey-brown stone with granite copings. Dock walls near sea gates in massive-blocked snecked reddish stone, but with some repairs in concrete in SW wall. Stepped walls of dock in snecked brown stone; some repairs and extension at NW end in concrete. The outer end of the dock is stepped up from the dock proper, with concrete flooring. Dock gate of the caisson type, with railed, metal-plated walkway. Gate opened by cables operated by electric winches covered by metal housing, shed in red brick and slate. Large capstan and bollards to each side of dock entrance. Manual capstans and bollards to NE, between Docks No 2 and No 1.
Reason for designation
Listed as part of a group of 3 dry docks important to history of port and shipping at Cardiff. Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Mount Stuart Graving Dock No.3Maritimeunder 1 mi
- Mount Stuart Graving Dock No.1Maritimeunder 1 mi
- Power House at Mount Stuart Graving DocksIndustrialunder 1 mi
- The Big WindsorCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.