Llanidan Hall

The house of 1631 was an early-Renaissance style mansion with a formal front incorporating projecting square bay windows formerly with plain chamfered mullions. Extended and altered in C17 and C18, the house now has the appearance of a Georgian gentry house. Main part a 3 storey, 5 window range of double-depth plan, with 2 storey, 5 window range, the former service wing, to the rear, right (NE) side. Masonry walls, now rendered; slate roof with rectangular stone stacks. Windows throughout are recessed hornless sashes with glazing bars. Main entrance, NW elevation, through a Doric porch of limestone, with datestone of 1631 set in the wall above. Flanking the entrance are square advanced bays, (the remodelled C17 bays) and a further recessed bay to the east. To the rear (SE) of the house is the late C18 addition; similarly detailed with large ground floor window to left, and French window to right of central projecting, full-height, canted bay. To the rear of the house is a rubble-walled terrace, with steps leading down from the half-glazed french doorway in the canted bay.

The house is partly built over medieval stone vaulted cellars which may date back to when the buildings of the monastic grange of the Augustinian Priory stood on the site. The earliest part of the present house dates to early C17: its original plan is not easy to determine, but it may have been a double pile house with a passage from the front entrance to the stair in the rear wing. The front entrance now opens into a large reception room which contains a dressed stone C17 fireplace, as do other ground floor rooms. The fabric of some of the interior walls have been revealed to show the original construction of twisted marram grass ropes woven through wooden laths, to form the 'wattle' onto which the plaster would have been applied.The drawing room and two of the en-suite bedrooms in the oldest part of the house contain C17 bolection-moulded panelling and there is panelling, probably re-set from the older part of the house, in the two principal rooms on the ground floor of the C18 addition to the rear of the house. The rooms in the canted bay have glazing bars made of copper, thought to come from the Parys Copper Mine, and the first floor room in the bay, the 'boudoir', retains the coved ceiling.