Presaddfed

Presaddfed is a largely 18th-century house with earlier origins, standing within a group setting. The main house is a two-storey, five-window gabled range, with three further gabled wings to the rear. It is constructed of rubble masonry, with cement rendering, and has weather-moulded hoods over the asymmetrically arranged windows on the front (south) elevation. The steeply pitched roof is covered with thin slates, featuring dressed kneelers and slab copings, and includes attic dormers with raking roofs and casement windows with modern leading. A single axial brick stack rises from the roof of the front section, positioned two-thirds along the ridge to the east, with further ridge stacks to the outer rear wings. Recessed 12-pane hornless sash windows are found on both the ground and first floors. A gabled central porch has a basket-headed entrance, flanked by Tuscan pilasters, and a shaped finial at the apex of the moulded coping. A circa 1700 achievement is displayed in a modern frame above the porch. A narrow round-headed window with irregular squared leading is located to the left (west) of the porch.

To the west of the main house is a two-storey, four-window range wing, constructed of rubble masonry, rendered walls, and a slate roof. It features a central pyramidal cupola, a large rendered stack at the south gable end, and a single raking dormer to the south end, above the second window. The wing is linked to the main house by a single-storey lean-to addition, and has modern casement windows.

The main part of the house contains a central 17th-century dogleg staircase which leads from a hallway with a stone flagged floor. The staircase has moulded brackets to an open string, with paired balusters that are turned in the lower part, twisted above, and set between moulded blocks, supporting a stepped moulded handrail. The staircase was reconstructed in 1821 but retains many original balusters in the upper flight. The hallway opens into drawing rooms to the right, which feature oak panelling and 17th-century-style fire surrounds. The front drawing room has ornate carving and festoons under a dentilled mantle, while the rear drawing room has a Renaissance-style surround with arcaded panelling, coupled fluted pilasters, and a dentilled frieze to a corbelled mantle. The dining room to the left of the hallway has tall painted panels of red and black. Above a large slate fire surround are four coats of arms with dates below, installed by W. O. Stanley in 1875, depicting the arms of families who have lived at Presaddfed. In the front west bedrooms is a stone corbel painted with a blackamoor's head.

Within the west wing, the oldest part of the house, are exposed collared trusses, one bearing the inscription “1736”, along with portions of a coloured plastered frieze of early 17th-century style.