59, Mount Stuart Square, SOUTH GLAMORGAN, Butetown, Cardiff

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4659 / 51°27'57"N

Longitude: -3.1674 / 3°10'2"W

OS Eastings: 319000

OS Northings: 174744

OS Grid: ST190747

Mapcode National: GBR KLS.QH

Mapcode Global: VH6FF.1FV4

Plus Code: 9C3RFR8M+82

Entry Name: 59, Mount Stuart Square, SOUTH GLAMORGAN

Listing Date: 20 August 1992

Last Amended: 21 August 1998

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 14009

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300014009

Location: Stepped down to right of Empire House opposite the former Coal Exchange.

County: Cardiff

Community: Butetown

Built-Up Area: Cardiff

Traditional County: Glamorgan

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History

Two houses from original development of Mount Stuart Square, probably by Alexander Roos, archtect to Bute Estate. These are amongst earliest, c. 1856

Exterior

Two houses, each of three storeys (on shallow plinth) and two window-bays. Stucco with slate roofs. No 59 is slightly set back from No 58 to its left. Pilaster strips at corners of buildings with some Doric detailing. Parapet with band course above second floor windows (large pane sashes) which have stuccoed architraves and standard proportions of late Georgian style, (unlike later surviving houses in Square). First floor sash windows similar; cornice at sill level over rusticated ground floor with segmental-headed doorway and broad tripartite sash window to each house.

Reasons for Listing

A significant survivor of the oldest domestic buildings in Mount Stuart Square, converted to commercial use. Group value.

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II 58, Mount Stuart Square, SOUTH GLAMORGAN
Stepped down to right of Empire House opposite the former Coal Exchange.
II St Line House
Stepped up from Nos 58 & 59; Cambrian Buildings to right.
II* Empire House
Dramatically stepped up near the end of a long line of buildings on the N side of the square and opposite the former Coal Exchange.
II Cambrian Buildings
On corner of Mount Stuart Square and West Bute Street. Cambrian buildings faces Square, Cymric Buildings West Bute Street.
II Lloyd's Bank
At the NE corner of the square opposite Barclays Bank and the former Coal Exchange building.
II Telephone Call Box adjoining E Side Of The Former Coal Exchange
On the pavement immediately outside the former Coal Exchange building; opposite Lloyds Bank.
II Cymric Buildings
On corner of Mount Stuart Square and West Bute Street. Cambrian buildings faces Square, Cymric Buildings West Bute Street.
II The Point (Formerly St Stephen's Church)
On compact site on the southern side of this north-eastern arm of Mount Stuart Square; on the corner with West Bute Street.

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59, Mount Stuart Square, SOUTH GLAMORGAN

A Grade II Listed Building in Butetown, Cardiff