Morfe House

Morfe House is a house originally built as a pair around 1860 by Samuel Pountney Smith. It features an ashlar facade with a brick rear and a slate mansard roof, designed in the French Baroque style. The building has two storeys with attics and a two-window range, intended to appear as a single house. There are side entrances framed by architraves with entablatures supported by console brackets. The front has squared bay windows with casements and cast-iron balustrading above. Above are sash windows and two dormers in the roof. The rear elevation includes shallow canted bay windows, and the stair windows have stained glass that incorporates medieval fragments. Inside, there is a simple decorative scheme with panelled arched recesses in the front rooms and plaster cornices. Pountney Smith built these houses as speculative developments, acquiring the property around 1860. Morfe House forms a pair with Kinnersley House.