Tanat House And Attached Outbuildings

LLANYBLODWEL C.P. LLANYBLODWEL SJ 22 SW

5/79 Tanat House and attached - outbuildings

GV II

House and attached outbuildings. Mid-to late C18 with minor later additons and alterations. Uncoursed limestone rubble with red brick dressings, formerly rendered; hipped open-well graded slate roof with C19 yellow brick ridge stacks to left and right. 2 storeys and attic. 5 windows; glazing bar sashes with plain stone lintels, 15-paned and extending to ground to ground floor. Central entrance; mid-C19 half-glazed door under wooden Doric porch with plain entablature. Four glazing bar sashes to rear with entrance in second bay from left through 6-panel door with rectangular barred overlight. L-shaped outbuildings attached to rear on left, enclosing cobbled courtyard. Uncoursed sandstone rubble with graded slate roof, hipped to north range. One storey. West range has C19 leaded casements alternating with boarded doors. North range similar with wide double doors in angle with west range. Interior. Central hall has dog-leg staircase with carved open string, 2 stick balusters to each tread and ramped wreathed handrail; top-lit by oval-shaped cupola with plaster decoration to sides. Similar carved open string and stick balusters to back staircase. Most rooms retain original panelled doors, some with fluted surrounds and carved rosettes to corners. Plaster cornices with egg and dart moulding to friezes and rosette emblems. Panelled window shutters and cellar to right. C19 cast- iron fireplaces to first-floor rooms. Attic has plank doors and 3 upper cruck trusses probably contemporary with construction of house. West range of outbuildings has bread oven and cast-iron sink with furnace below to left. Stables in north range with C19 wooden partitions and cast-iron hay racks. Alcock (1981), p. 145.

Listing NGR: SJ2395322932