Glan Yr Afon Hall And Attached Walls

A small country house, dating from circa 1790, with minor later additions and alterations. The house is constructed of red brick with painted ashlar dressings, and has a low-pitched slate roof with red brick ridge stacks to the left and right, and a shallow glass cupola in the centre. It is arranged as three bays by three bays. The building sits on a rendered stone plinth that extends above the windows on the east side and garden front. The first floor features a continuous moulded floor band and a plain cill band.

The front entrance has a slightly recessed central bay featuring a tall 15-paned sash window with a moulded stone architrave and entablature that cuts through the cill band. Above the door is a composite stone column entablature spanning the full width of the bay. The entrance itself consists of half-glazed double doors with a rectangular barred overlight, flanked by narrow rectangular windows. Glazing bar sashes with painted stone wedge lintels are present on both floors to the left and right of the entrance.

The garden front presents a full-height central bow with tripartite glazing bar sashes divided by demi-columns on both the main floors; the first-floor windows have fluting to the bases and capitals. A plain moulded entablature sits above both windows with a bracketed delicate cast-iron balcony to the first floor. Half-glazed double doors lead to the semi-basement, flanked by blind windows with painted-on glazing bars, a stone plinth band acting as a continuous lintel. Glazing bar sashes are present on all floors to the left and right, those on the first and second floors having painted stone wedge lintels. The semi-basement windows are smaller in size and sit directly under the stone band of the plinth. The east side has three glazing bar sashes on each floor, with the semi-basement windows being blind and reduced in size, showcasing painted-on glazing bars. The west side features a 20th-century panelled door with a fluted columnar porch to the right bay.

Attached red brick walls with ramped ashlar coping represent the remains of a former conservatory.

Inside, a top-lit geometrical stone staircase has cast-iron stick balusters and a wreathed handrail in the central entrance hall. The former drawing room, within the bowed projection, showcases an elaborately carved plaster cornice with egg and dart moulding, alongside a marble fireplace with Corinthian columns. The former dining room retains its original plaster cornice and a Kent-style wooden fireplace brought from another location. Panelled window shutters and raised and fielded 6-panel doors are found throughout the house, alongside stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.