27A also known as 'Six Gables'.

Six Gables Dentist Practice is located in the southeastern part of what was once a single residence known as The Laurels, and has been listed by Cadw as “a mid-19th century villa of character”. The northwestern part of the former single residence, 27 Penlline Road, is still known as The Laurels and is listed separately. The Laurels was probably built sometime in the 1880s.

The front façade consists of two gables of two storeys each. The whole is stuccoed with pronounced quoins on the southeast corner. The northwest corner buts onto number 27 in a vertical joint which it was once part of.

At ground floor level a verandah stretches across the whole façade and into number 27. It has a tented corrugated roof supported by decorative ironwork trellis supports. The verandah roof is hipped at the southeast end but butts vertically against number 27 at its northwest end. The ironwork trellis supports are connected at ground by decorative ironwork panels.

The roof is of Welsh slate with terracotta fleur de lys finials on the gable ends, although the southeast finial is now broken. There are terracotta two-holed ornamental ridge tiles and bargeboards are of a decorative nature.

Reference: Report of a Heritage Impact Assessment, carried out by Trysor in 2023. Trysor Project No. 2022/851.

RCAHMW, 2024.

Site Record

Penlline Road, 27 & 27A, Whitchurch, Cardiff; 'Six Gables'