Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Inn at the Deep End (former Penarth Baths & Supervisor's Office)
Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 20 July 1984
- Locality
- The Esplanade
- Community
- Penarth
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.43556, -3.16807
- Cadw reference
- 13352
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
On corner of The Esplanade and Bridgeman Road.
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.
Nearby in the register
- N.Lodge to Windsor Gardens (Piermaster's Lodge)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-box in front of the Pavilion and PierCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- Penarth Pier (includingI Pavilion & Shops)Commercialunder 1 mi
- CenotaphCommemorativeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.