Wales House With Front Boundary Railings And East Side Wallings

This is a detached house, dating from the 17th century with significant alterations in the 19th century. It is constructed of local lias stone, of several periods on the south front, with a Welsh slate roof featuring stepped coped gables. The house has brick chimney stacks. The building is arranged in an L-shape with a double roof plan, and stands two storeys high, five bays wide. Most windows are 2-light horizontal bar casement windows set within segmental arched openings with voussoirs. Later insertions are visible in bays 3, 4, and 5. French windows are present in the lower bays 3 and 5, while bay 1 has a 2-light mullioned window with a beaded surround, and glazed lead. The lower bay 4 features a 19th-century door set within an 18th-century architrave and is accessed via an open Tuscan portico with a plain recess and square label. The interior of the house has not been inspected.

Running from the north-east corner back towards Wales Bridge is a 3-metre-high stone wall with piers spaced approximately 4 metres apart and a plain coping. A lower wall, approximately 1.75 metres high, runs from the south-east corner, rising at each end. Attached to this wall on the south side is a low, semi-circular stone wall with Ham stone coping and early 19th-century wrought iron railings approximately 1.5 metres high, featuring necked and pointed tops. A pair of gate piers, about 2 metres high with moulded plinths, rusticated ashlar shafts and bell-hip tops, stands in the centre opposite the portico, flanked by gates with curved tops. These features contribute to the setting of the house. The house was owned by the Crowbrow family in 1795 and later by the Mildmay family by 1842.