Former HSBC - Bute Street, Cardiff Bay : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Former HSBC - Bute Street, Cardiff Bay / ell brown
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| 説明 | A look around Cardiff Bay.Former HSBC - Bute Street, Cardiff Bay.The building is For Sale.Grade II listed building.Midland Bank, Butetown Location Large commercial building on corner of Bute Street and James Street. History Built in 1874 for Cory Bros, coalowners and exporters, who moved to opposite corner of Bute Street in 1889. Architect, F. Cutlan. In 1898, Midland Bank's architect T B Whinney, made alterations to ground floor windows and doors. In 1902-3 and 1914-15, extensions in similar style by Henry Budgen, architect. Interior Main entrance doorway leads to polygonal wooden panelled lobby to banking hall which has wooden panelled counters and partitions with frosted glass. Ceiling beams decorated in classicizing style. Black and white Carrara marble floor tiles. Doorway to Bute St leads to lobby with marble tiled floor, red glazed brick dado, and simple ceiling cornice; corridor continues in same style. Exterior Four storeys with 10 bays facing Bute Street, 7 facing James Street and a narrow corner bay. Bathstone and yellow brick with columns in red and grey granite, some terracotta panels. Heavy cornice has paired brackets with swags. Third floor windows with square-headed architraves, but round-headed openings with sashes (but the five S bays in Bute Street have square-headed openings); surrounds in yellow brick with narrow round-headed decoration between openings with bathstone surrounds and terracotta panels. Below sill level, decorated band in yellow brick, bathstone and terracotta. Second floor has paired round-headed sash windows to each bay and columns with granite shafts and foliated capital, but five S bays in Bute Street have single arches; arched single sash windows to each bay with floral decoration in spandrels and granite columns. Ground floor articulated columns with pink granite shafts on grey granite bases and with floral capitals. Round-headed arched with relief decoration on keystones and in spandrels. Shouldered sash windows. Entrance doorways at S bay in Bute St, and E and W bays in James St. Treatment of corner bay follows that of main bays. Reason for Listing Impressive example of High Victorian Commercial architecture on prominent site. Group value. References The Inner Harbour - An Historical Appraisal. An unpublished report prepared by The Survey of Cardiff for Cardiff Bay Development Corporation, March 1989, p.42-44.This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.Notes: Large commercial building on corner of Bute Street and James Street.Source: CadwListed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence. |
| 撮影日 | 2015-06-07 14:46:20 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | FinePix S2980 , FUJIFILM |
| 露出 | 0.01 sec (1/105) |
| 開放F値 | f/6.4 |
| 焦点距離 | 5 mm |