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
13352
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
20/07/1984
Date of Amendment
21/01/1993
Name of Property
Inn at the Deep End (former Penarth Baths & Supervisor's Office)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Community
Penarth
Town
Locality
The Esplanade
Easting
318902
Northing
171377
Street Side
Location
On corner of The Esplanade and Bridgeman Road.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
1883-85. By H C Harris and H Snell, architects, Cardiff and Penarth. Conversion to public house and restaurant 1991.
Exterior
Jacobean style. Main frontage in 2 parts: on left, towered entrance block fronting the (former) small pool; on right, basilican facade to the (former) large pool. Blue lias facings. Dressings of Bath stone and yellow brick, red sandstone string courses, artificial slate roofs. Octagonal tower with diminishing stages, ogee (leaded) dome, swagged frieze. Strapwork panels over first floor. Heavy angle volutes flank 'Public Baths' tablet with segmental pediment over heavy cornice to Ionic doorpiece, flying stair to double doors. Lower flanking bays have carved pediments with urns, swags, dolphins etc and stone mullioned windows (right hand partly blocked by modern extension). Similar return bay in Bridgeman Road. Right hand facade has finely carved pediment with griffin supporting town arms, 3 Ionic pilasters rest on heavy stringcourse, paired oculi with enriched architraves over rectangular windows. Lower flanking bays with pilasters and segmental window surrounds.
Supervisor's cottage in Bridgeman Road is attached to SW corner of the baths, 2-storey rubble and brick in simplified version of same style, but with half-timbered porch.
Interior
Entrance hall retains original boarded and ribbed ceiling. To rear, former small pool room with lightweight metal trusses to roof with longitudinal lantern. Former large pool room converted to multi-level bar-restaurant but retains longitudinal lantern to boarded roof supported by arched girder trusses with fretwork detailing to spandrels. Truss ends seated on ironwork volutes to west wall, on stone corbels at impost level to aisled east wall (10 bays). Red and yellow patterned brickwork walls (formerly glazed) with round arch treatment to long walls, east aisle with half arches abutting rear of arcades.
Reason for designation
Group Value.
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