Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
13995
Building Number
8
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/05/1975
Date of Amendment
21/08/1998
Name of Property
8 Mount Stuart Square
Address
8 Mount Stuart Square
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Butetown
Town
Locality
Easting
318992
Northing
174665
Street Side
E
Location
To right of Nos 6 & 7 set into a line commercial properties near the S nd of the square; opposite the former Coal Exchange.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Circa 1858. Probably by Alexander Roos, architect to Bute Estate. Original houses from Mount Stuart Square development later adapted for business use.
Exterior
Each of three storeys, one window. Slate roofs, brick chimneys. Stucco, with some scribing in imitation of ashlar, rusticated ground floor with shallow plinth. Cornice and parapet. Second floor windows broad tripartite openings articulated by Doric pilasters and Venetian type with tripartite openings articulated by Doric pilasters and shell motif in small tympanum above. Cornice over rusticated ground floor. Ground floor of No 8 has square-headed doorway and to its R large three-light shop window with modern round arched glazing.
Ground floor of No 9 has bathstone later C19 commercial front (on grey stone plinth) dated 1889. C16/C17 Flemish Renaissance style, by W D Blessley. architect. Front consists of deep entablature with cornice. 'Perch Buildings' in bronze lettering on frieze, architrave with decorated keystones and cartouche over doorway, where entablature breaks forward, and is surmounted by small triangular pediment. Doorway flanked by pilasters with swagged capitals. To R of door, 3 windows with bulbous columns. Decorated panels in plinth below.
Interior
Reason for designation
A significant survivor of the oldest domestic buildings in Mount Stuart Square, converted to commercial use. Group value.
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