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
14048
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
20/08/1992
Date of Amendment
21/08/1998
Name of Property
Mount Stuart Graving Dock No.1
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Butetown
Town
Locality
Inner Harbour Area
Easting
319058
Northing
174338
Street Side
Location
Former Mountstuart Shiprepairing Yard is between Stuart Street and Dudley Street. Graving Dock No 1. is the eastmost dock of the group of 3 dry docks in the yard.
Description
Broad Class
Maritime
Period
History
This dock may encorporate parts of the dock shown on the 1st Edition OS Map, surveyed 1876-78, but was later altered and extended to the SE.
Exterior
Dry dock of approximately 130m long by 22m wide. Sea walls of dock in massive blocks of grey-brown stone with granite copings. Stepped walls of dock (not quite parallel) in finely-jointed snecked reddish stone, some repairs/alterations in concrete. Two sets of steps built into NE wall, and one set of steps built in to SW wall, with metal handrails. NW end of dock extends beneath concrete bridge. The outer end of the dock is stepped up form the dock proper, with concrete flooring. Dock gates metal, clad in vertical boarding on the seaward side, with depth scale, and with railed, wooden walkway. Gates operated by chains hauled by manual cast-iron winches with plate metal housings approximately one metre high, each side of dock entrance. To NE side of entrance, capstans and bollards. Further row of capstans and bollards parallel to NE side of dock, approximately 6 metres from dockside.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as part of a group of 3 dry docks important to history of port and shipping at Cardiff. Group value.
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