Mount Stuart Graving Dock No.1, Butetown, Cardiff

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4622 / 51°27'43"N

Longitude: -3.1665 / 3°9'59"W

OS Eastings: 319058

OS Northings: 174338

OS Grid: ST190743

Mapcode National: GBR KLT.YS

Mapcode Global: VH6FF.2HCX

Plus Code: 9C3RFR6M+VC

Entry Name: Mount Stuart Graving Dock No.1

Listing Date: 20 August 1992

Last Amended: 21 August 1998

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 14048

Building Class: Maritime

ID on this website: 300014048

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.

County: Cardiff

Community: Butetown

Locality: Inner Harbour Area

Built-Up Area: Cardiff

Traditional County: Glamorgan

Tagged with: Dry dock

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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.

Reasons for Listing

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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Other nearby listed buildings

II Mount Stuart Graving Dock No.2
Former Mountstuart Shiprepairing Yard is between Stuart Street and Dudley Street. Graving Dock No 2 is the central dock of the group of 3 dry docks in the yard.
II Sea Wall to East of former Mount Stuart Shiprepair Yard
Butetown
II Railings & Gates behind Scott's Brasserie (Former Pilotage Office)
Near SW corner of Former Pilotage Office.
II The Big Windsor
On corner to W of Pilotage Building.
II Mount Stuart Graving Dock No.3
Former Mountstuart Shiprepairing Yard on triangular site between Stuart Street and Dudley Street. Graving Dock No 3 is the westernmost of the group of 3 dry docks in the yard.
II Scott's Brasserie (Former Pilotage Office).
Detached to NE of the Graving Docks and immediately to left of The Big Windsor PH.
II Signal Platform in Bay
In bay, S of Industrial and Maritime Museum, approximately 100 metres from sea wall.
II Power House at Mount Stuart Graving Docks
On SW side of Graving Dock No 3, close to its dock gates.

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Mount Stuart Graving Dock No.1

A Grade II Listed Building in Butetown, Cardiff