13647

282  

II  

Designated  

19/05/1975  

30/04/1999  

Golden Cross Public House  

282 Bute Street  

Cardiff  

Castle  

 

 

318532  

175996  

N  

At junction with Customhouse Street, on corner with Hayes Bridge Road, adjacent to ice rink.  

Commercial  

 

Public house; circa 1903 (date on tiles in bar).  

Two-storey public house. South east front of 6 bays (L bay is broader), plus splayed corner bay to R; 2 bays to sides. Red brick with yellow brick pilasters, aprons etc. 2 windows with curved heads to each bay on first floor with single cornice and aprons over; parapet above. On ground floor, elaborate tiled pub front with Venetian windows; green and gold tiling with raised lettering to fascias, tiled panelling to pilasters and stall risers.  

Saloon bar on ground floor at west end; walls lined with polychrome tiles; tiled floral frieze in relief. Bar with hard wood top and with external covering of tiles with grotesque pattern in relief. Engraved glass in doors and screen. Walls of entrance lobby, larger one of Cardiff Castle, dated 1903 and smaller one of Cardiff Town Hall; both by firm of Craven, Dunhill and Co, Salop.  

Striking public house, well-preserved, with particularly good tiles to facade and interior.