Marquess of Bute's Warehouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 August 1990. Warehouse.

Marquess of Bute's Warehouse

WRENN ID
grim-mullion-hawk
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Country
Wales
Date first listed
1 August 1990
Type
Warehouse
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Square 3 storey and basement. 3-bay warehouse with coursed hammer-dressed facing. Low pyramidal slate roof behind ashlar blocking course and heavy cornice; small chimney stack. Full height loading bay to centre with boarded and corrugated shutters on three level, brackets for pulley hoists over. Cambered heads to flanking windows with 20-pane ironwork frames (now blocked). Similar N front with boarded doors retains fine ironwork bracket crane with pulley; small enclosed yard.

Retains original construction with three-aisled ground floor over fireproof basement. Cast-iron, fish bellied and crossed-flanged piers with annulets; cross-plate ends curved. Embossed lettering on piers reeds; "W. Catleugh. Millright, Cardiff". Cast iron handrail to corner stairs down to basement with brick Jack Arches and inverted T-profile girders supported by longditudinal girders with piers as before. Stone flagged floor. Timber upper floors and pyramidal timber roof of king post construction central support. Brick linings to upper floors only.

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