13352

 

II  

Designated  

20/07/1984  

21/01/1993  

Inn at the Deep End (former Penarth Baths & Supervisor's Office)  

 

Vale of Glamorgan  

Penarth  

 

The Esplanade  

318902  

171377  

 

On corner of The Esplanade and Bridgeman Road.  

Commercial  

 

1883-85. By H C Harris and H Snell, architects, Cardiff and Penarth. Conversion to public house and restaurant 1991.  

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.  

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.  

Group Value.