Radnor House Antiques

Radnor House Antiques is a house and shop, dating from approximately the late 17th century, with alterations and additions made in the early and late 18th centuries, and further changes in the later 20th century. The building is constructed of slatestone rubble with granite dressings, and has an asbestos slate roof with ridge tiles; the gable end is to the left, and the right side has a hipped roof. A stack has been removed, with only a short rendered section remaining from the original stack at the right end.

The original plan comprised a two-room layout with a central passage, each room of roughly equal size and originally heated by an end stack. An early 18th-century addition, consisting of a single room and a stair hall to the rear, was added, containing the staircase and a small unheated room. A later 18th-century addition formed a two-room service wing to the rear left, with one room heated by a stack on the left side and another by a stack in the rear gable. A conservatory was added to the rear left wing in the late 20th century. The two front rooms are now used as a shop.

The front elevation has a rendered plinth with granite long and short quoins, and is nearly symmetrical with three windows. The first floor has three 19th-century 16-pane sashes. On the ground floor, there is a central 19th-century panelled and glazed door with granite voussoirs and a floating cornice, and a 19th-century 16-pane sash with granite voussoirs to the right. A late 19th-century square bay shop window with a hipped slate roof and plate-glass windows is positioned to the left. The right end of the building is blank. The left end abuts the adjacent property.

The rear left wing has a late 19th-century 4-pane sash at ground floor. At the rear, the early 18th-century addition to the left was raised in height in the late 18th century. It has an early 18th-century 12-pane sash with thick glazing bars on the ground floor, and a late 18th-century 12-pane sash with thin glazing bars on the first floor. To the right, there is a 20th-century 9-pane light and a 20th-century door. The service wing to the right is two-storey high, with a 20th-century door at ground floor, a 19th-century 20-pane sash to the left, and a 19th-century 16-pane sash to the right. The first floor has two 19th-century 16-pane sashes. A 20th-century conservatory is attached in the angle to the main range.

The interior has had the ground floor partition walls removed. The room to the left contains a fireplace with a granite surround, featuring hollow-moulded jambs with a ball finial on a shaped stem as a stop; the lintel matches this design. The room to the right has only the granite jambs remaining from a similar fireplace, the lintel having been removed. The central passage floor is slate-paved. The rear room to the right retains its early 18th-century sash window, with an ovolo moulding on the inside. The open-well staircase has stick balusters. In the rear wing to the left, the inner room has a blocked fireplace and a chamfered wooden lintel remaining, while the end room has an end fireplace with a clom oven and a cast iron door.