Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
White Hart Public House
Butetown, Cardiff, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Butetown, Cardiff, designated on 21 August 1998.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 21 August 1998
- Community
- Butetown
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.46466, -3.16933
- Cadw reference
- 20282
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
Opposite Merthyr House, 20m E of corner with former Glamorgan Canal.
History
Public house. Rebuilt 1889 to designs of EWM Corbett, architect, to replace building which was already public house before 1857.
Exterior
Public house. Three storeys, three windows. Flemish renaissance style. Red brick with dressings and banding in bathstone and red sandstone. Front articulated by tall pilasters and cornices between floors. Gabled central bay, urn finials to ends. Second floor has cambered arch with stressed voussoirs over 2-light mullion and transom window, flanking bays have oval windows in red stone, each with 4 bathstone keystones. First floor has central 2-light mullion and transom window, flanked by transomed windows. On ground floor, outer bays have camber-headed doorways; central bay has camber-headed window with alternating bathstone and sandstone voussoirs, panel in red sandstone below.
Reason for designation
Listed as good late C19 public house front with unusual use of contrasting materials.
Nearby in the register
- Mount Stuart HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
- Marine HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
- Aberdare HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
- 20 Mount Stuart SquareCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.