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Latitude: 51.4658 / 51°27'56"N
Longitude: -3.1649 / 3°9'53"W
OS Eastings: 319177
OS Northings: 174731
OS Grid: ST191747
Mapcode National: GBR KMS.9J
Mapcode Global: VH6FF.3F66
Plus Code: 9C3RFR8P+83
Entry Name: Former Warehouse (The "D" Shed)
Listing Date: 20 August 1992
Last Amended: 14 March 2003
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 14057
Building Class: Domestic
Also known as: Former Warehouse (The "D" Shed)
ID on this website: 300014057
Location: About 10m north of junction with Bute Place.
County: Cardiff
Community: Butetown
Community: Butetown
Locality: Inner Harbour Area
Built-Up Area: Cardiff
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Art exhibition Arts centre Former warehouse
The building marked on First Edition Ordnance Survey map (surveyed 1870's) as warehouse beside Bute East Dock Basin. Known as "D" Shed, it was dismantled in the 1990s, and re-assembled on its present site in 2002.
Northern section is mid C19 warehouse/transit shed. Slate roof. Gables in vertical boarding with blocked tripartite window. Iron frame construction of 5 bays by 2, with cruciform-sectioned Tuscan-style columns supporting I-beam entablature. Walling on west side in wooden boarding imitating the original structure of boarding with sliding doors; other sides glazed. Roof of iron construction with closely-spaced trusses; system of narrow tie bars with v-shaped cast-iron stays bolted to rafters.
Early C21 extension at S end, of triangular plan, in metal and glass, reflecting the materials of the original.
Listed for special interest of C19 section of building, a rare example in Wales of a mid C19 iron framed dock warehouse/transit shed.
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