Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
13343
Building Number
24
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
21/01/1993
Date of Amendment
21/01/1993
Name of Property
24 Archer Road
Address
24 Archer Road
Location
Unitary Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Community
Penarth
Town
Locality
Penarth
Easting
318054
Northing
171156
Street Side
E
Location
On N corner of Archer Road and Victoria Road.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Pair of late C19 semi-detached houses (on OS Second Edition map surveyed 1899).
Exterior
Two storeys plus ample attics; asymmetrical pair. Red brick ground floors with some bathstone dressings (notably to porch of 25 Victoria Road); upper floors rendered with some pargetting; half-timbering to Victoria Road; red fish-scale tile hanging; main roofs in artificial slate; tall red brick chimney stacks; red tiled roofs above ground floor projections.
S elevation of No 24 Archer Road has roof hipped to L with small dormer; facing road is oriel dormer under raking roof. Two storey splayed bay to R under gable with strapwork pargetting. First floor of bay has sash windows with wooden mullions and transoms; ground floor of bay set slightly forward under roof of red fish-scale tiles has bathstone mullioned and transomed window with sash glazing. To L of bay on first floor, two light and three light window; on ground floor bay window in angle then entrance porch with broad segmental head (bathstone dressings). Entrance door set back with window to L, and window to R in splay.
S elevation of No 25 Victoria Road (facing Archer Road) has to R, boldly projecting semi-octagonal bay with splayed hipped roof at attic level, four-light dormer under raking roof to L.
First floor of bay has sash windows with wooden mullions and transoms; four-light similar window to L. Ground floor (under shallow tiled roofs) has three-light window to R, and semi-hexagonal bay window to L.
Entrance front facing E (Victoria Road) has two asymmetrical gables on half-timbered first floor; three-light window between gables; two tall red brick chimneys. Two light, and smaller single0light window to First floor. Ground floor projects forward under red-tiled roof. To L, bathstone porch
has half timbered gable over three-centred arched doorway with foliage reliefs to jambs; to R of door 'Venetian' window with good stained glass; to L convex return with strapwork relief, and multi-light window. To R of porch, single storey red brick service wing, camber-headed sash glazing. Further gable to N return.
Houses retain boundary walls in red brick with bathstone copings, and gate piers with bathstone quoins and moulded capstones.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as good relatively unspoilt example of High Victorian eclectic style.
Group value with Nos 22 and 24 Archer Road.
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