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
26504
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
03/05/2002
Date of Amendment
03/05/2002
Name of Property
Dinas Powys Parish Hall
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Community
Dinas Powys
Town
Cardiff
Locality
Dinas Powys
Easting
315234
Northing
171297
Street Side
N
Location
Just to W and on rising ground above the village centre, on a railed and walled terrace of random stone reached by steps.
Description
Broad Class
Recreational
Period
History
Built 1907, opened by Mrs Jenner of Wenvoe Castle. Architects Teather and Wilson, architects of Cardiff. The result of an application by the Parish Council for a loan of £1500 for the erection of a Parish Hall. Original plans, still existing, show the design very much as built and as surviving, with minor extensions.
Exterior
Village hall in Arts and Crafts style. Walls rendered with roughcast and painted, some applied half timbering; slate roof with deeply overhanging boarded sprocketed eaves, tall rendered lateral stack. large ridge ventilator, terracotta finial. Plan of main hall end on to road with front bay, porch stepped back to side and attached single storey cross gabled office and kitchen range to side. Lattice casement windows throughout. Gable end facade is battered to sides; central 2-storey bay with wide windows which is half timbered to first floor, battered to ground floor, the roof extending over in a shallow hip. Black and white string course separates the storeys; side windows flank the bay, 2-light to first floor and oculi with painted keystone surround to ground floor. Small gabled half timbered porch to right set against office bay which has a multipane window; catslide roof behind at side right over kitchen range. Uphill side left has 5 battered buttresses separating the large multipane windows.
Interior
Interior has segmental arched gallery with panelled front at street end and stage opposite. Open roofed hall of 5 bays with arch-braced trusses, swing doors, multipane deep side windows.
Reason for designation
Listed for its architectural interest as an Arts and Crafts community hall retaining nearly all its original features and in a commanding position.
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