Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Woodland Hall
Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 21 January 1993
- Community
- Penarth
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.43713, -3.17836
- Cadw reference
- 13384
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
To N of Trinity Church.
History
By John Coates Carter, Penarth based architect. Original plans dated 1896 link building with All Saint's Church but do not include W side of front block (shown as on these plans on OS Second Edition map, revised 1899).
Exterior
Free Arts and Crafts style; slate roof, pebble dash first floor, red brick ground floor with bathstone banding and dressings. Main front faces roughly S; L-shaped plan. Two gables face street, that to R set forward with eaves sweeping down to first floor and with overhanging bell housing; each gable has large round-arched multi-paned window (moulded band above R window). Central small-pane multi-light window set at eaves. On ground floor, central doorway with shallow porch; to L, window group consisting of larger three-light small-pane window flanked by smaller small-pane windows all with bathstone surround.
To R of doorway, small three-light window flanked by smaller single light windows (now blocked) all between horizontal bathstone bands which continue round building. W gable end has no openings; cut corner to L. At rear of main block on first floor two gables (smaller to L); small pane window to L large semi-circular window to R. On ground floor, two camber-headed windows and large window with concrete lintel.
Rear wing at right angles in same style has square headed windows to E and W elevations, glazing altered during conversion to offices.
Single storey block at angle.
Interior
Converted to offices circa 1980's but parts of original open roof visible on first floor.
Nearby in the register
- Trinity Methodist ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church Hall attached to Trinity Methodist ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Paget RoomsCommercialunder 1 mi
- All Saints Parish HallRecreationalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.