The
Paget Rooms were built in 1906 to an eclectic design by
J. Coates Carter on land leased from the Earl of
Plymouth who had married Alberta Paget in 1883.
The building is rectangular with a facade of
roughcast render (painted) over brown glazed
brick plinth. rendered
facade over a dado of brown glazed brick, The
upper storey has a row of seven small pane
casement windows with a small round window to
the left.
The central main entrance consists of a low
round arch flanked by ionic columns with
exaggerated capitals and paired glazed wooden
doors with a multi-paned transom. Above the
arch, there is a pair of small-pane casement
windows flanked by aedicules enclosing
cartouches.
The interior of the building has an auditorium
55ft x 33ft, a stage 25ft deep and a proscenium
30ft wide.
It is Grade II listed.
In the 1930s, the building became the Willmore Brothers'
"Regal Cinema" before the Penarth Urban District
Council (now defunct) acquired the building in
the 1950s.
The building is now owned and managed by Penarth
Town Council. and continues to be used as a
theatre and concert hall, a venue for public
meetings and seminars, and for a variety of
community activities throughout the year
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