6 Plymouth Road is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 January 1993. Bank. 1 related planning application.
6 Plymouth Road
- WRENN ID
- winding-steel-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1993
- Type
- Bank
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
6 Plymouth Road is an imposing building constructed in the 19th century, likely the mid-1800s, with subsequent alterations. It is composed of nine bays, with three storeys and an additional fourth storey to the central bays, built upon a basement. The exterior is crafted from grey-brown Pennant stone with Bathstone dressings, incorporating 16th-century Flemish-style reliefs in the pediments. Half-timbering adorns the second floor. The roof is slate, with some replacements, and features yellow and red brick chimneys and quoins.
The central portion of the building rises further with an attic storey, highlighted by bold, splayed dormers. A three-light dormer window sits centrally, topped with a shaped pediment. The second floor features a central three-light window flanked by semi-hexagonal bays. Beyond these are splayed dormers, a narrow gable, and a rectangular end block with a bay window under a splayed roof. The first floor mirrors this pattern with a central three-light window, a broken pediment, and bays with segmental pediments, followed by a narrow, segmentally-headed window and another similar bay.
A central porch provides access, featuring stairs leading to Mannerist fluted Doric pillars with annulets, a parapet, and a segmental pediment bearing the inscription 'Lansdowne' on the frieze. The porch has a cambered doorway with panelled double doors and glazing above. The porch is flanked by bay windows with triangular pediments. To the left of the front elevation is a narrower bay leading to a segmentally headed door. Attached to the main building is a single-storey projecting bank front, constructed of Bathstone with a parapet and six bays articulated by tapering fluted pilasters. The windows and doorway are framed by three-centred arches, with a pediment above displaying the date '1833'.
To the right of the original block are three ground floor bays that form a projecting restaurant and hotel front, retaining some features similar to the bank front, such as fluted pilasters and a pediment displaying the date '1886'. The side elevations feature projecting gabled bays; a single-storey porch was formerly present on the right elevation but has been demolished on the left.
The rear elevation displays a similar architectural style, with smaller polygonal bays and splayed roofs to either side of groupings of three windows on each floor. Lower polygonal bays with splayed roofs flank the central block. Corner blocks are set forward, and the roofs incorporate triangular dormers. The left-hand roof has a pyramidal roof at an angle, which is lost to the right-hand roof.
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