Bute Chambers is a Grade II listed building in the Rhondda Cynon Taf local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 January 1991. Commercial building.
Bute Chambers
- WRENN ID
- lone-chancel-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Constituency
- Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare MP: Gerald Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1991
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- Bute Chambers, Aberdare East, Rhondda Cynon Taff, CF44 7LD
- OS grid reference
- SO 003 024
- Coordinates
- 51.71189, -3.44323
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Bute Chambers is a late Georgian, three-storey building featuring a two-window front facing Cross Street, a one-window curved corner, and a four-window side along Bute Street. The exterior is cement rendered. It has a hipped modern tiled roof with wide boarded eaves and a cement rendered chimney stack on the left side. The building has small pane sash windows, which are horned, except for the two bays to the left of the corner. The corner windows are curved, with the first-floor window being tripartite. There are modern windows on the ground floor and the extreme left of the first floor on the Bute Street elevation, with the latter at least in its original opening.
The Cross Street elevation features a simple classical shopfront that extends around the corner, complete with a bracket cornice and partly fluted pilasters. A half-glazed door is located across the corner, flanked by modern cross frame and single light windows. The central doorway on the Cross Street front is flanked by horned small pane sash windows and a modern window. Additionally, there is a two-window extension uphill on the Cross Street front.
The building has not been inspected but was reordered in the late 20th century for use as office space.
Local climate
Bute Chambers sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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