Penarth Yacht Club House

The Penarth Yacht Club House dates from the 18th century, with later alterations. The rear wall is constructed of red brick with a white brick lacing course at the eaves. The front and side walls are faced with painted roughcast at ground floor level, with stucco above, and the roofs are slate-clad. The front pitch is enlivened by attic gables of varying shapes. The building features red ridge and crest tiles and terracotta finials.

The front elevation has a balconied verandah spanning seven bays on the first floor and eight bays on the ground floor. The verandah is supported by fluted, twisted cast-iron columns with Corinthian capitals, arranged in pairs except between the fourth and fifth first-floor bays, and between the fifth and sixth ground-floor gables from the north end. Coupled columns are located in the centre of the northernmost gable on the ground floor only. The balcony has a stone-flagged floor and exposed wooden joists to its flat roof. The verandah extends along the side elevations, curving at the southeast angle.

The ground floor features a series of ledged doors, with pairs of ledged sliding doors to gables two to five and gable seven from the north; a single pedestrian door below the fifth gable and a similar pedestrian door below the sixth gable.

A Mansard-shaped roof is present at the north end, projecting forward as a wide gable with a hipped end and bargeboard. This gable contains two segmental sash windows descending to the balcony floor, each with a keystone. The second and fourth gables are shaped as pedimented dormers, each with a two-light French casement below the balcony storey. The third gable features a moulded cornice and shaped sides, incorporating a three-light semi-circular attic window and a French casement with side lights on the balcony storey. The fifth and sixth gables are formed of two projecting, conjoined gable ends, each featuring segmentally-headed sash windows to the attic and a sash window below descending to the balcony floor. The fifth gable also has a three-quarter glazed balcony door. The seventh ‘gable’ is a segmental pediment over a two-light dormer in a separate hipped roof with two modern two-light French casements on the balcony storey.

The south return elevation retains the balcony, but with balustrade finials instead of columns, with the verandah columns enclosed on the ground floor. It has three bays, with a rectangular bay window with sash lights at each end, each topped with a two-light, segmentally pedimented dormer. The centre bay features a two-thirds glazed door with sash side-lights; an attic lunette is set within a rectangular surround with shaped sides and a crowning moulded pediment.

Inside, a contemporary staircase has stone steps and an iron balustrade.