Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former H.M.Customs and Excise Office
Butetown, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 20 August 1992
- Locality
- Inner Harbour Area
- Community
- Butetown
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.46238, -3.16149
- Cadw reference
- 14059
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
Between W corner of Roath Basin and sloping sea wall.
History
Built probably c. 1870. On Ordnance Survey First Edition, (surveyed 1876-78). Predecessor to Customs and Excise Office in Bute Street. The building was moved and re-aligned circa 1993.
Exterior
Neo-Tudor. Two storeys of thinly coursed local rubble with pale sandstone dressings. Distinctive crenellated parapet, quoins and cornice band. 4-centred arched horned 12-pane sash windows with freestone surrounds; left hand window blocked up. Tall central porch with similar parapet and blind heraldic panels (coats of arms missing); narrower windows and boarded door entrance to left hand side. 1-window end elevations with similar sashes. Rear is rendered with blocked doorway towards R of each floor.
Reason for designation
Listed for historical interest to Cardiff Docks and for its striking castellated style.
Nearby in the register
- Sloping Stone Sea Wall between Entrance to Bute East Dock and Roath Basin, including 5 DolphinsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Locky's Cottage (former Workmen's Hut at Sea Lock to Roath BasinMaritimeunder 1 mi
- Norwegian Church Arts CentreReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Sea Wall and Lock of Bute East Dock BasinMaritimeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.