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
20282
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
21/08/1998  
Date of Amendment
21/08/1998  
Name of Property
White Hart Public House  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Cardiff  
Community
Butetown  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
318866  
Northing
174614  
Street Side
N  
Location
Opposite Merthyr House, 20m E of corner with former Glamorgan Canal.  

Description


Broad Class
Commercial  
Period
 

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.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Listed as good late C19 public house front with unusual use of contrasting materials.  

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