Llanidan Hall

Llanidan Hall is a large house dating back to 1631, originally built in an early Renaissance style. It has undergone extensions and alterations in the 17th and 18th centuries, resulting in its present appearance as a Georgian gentry house. The main part of the house is three stories high with a five-window front, based on a double-depth plan, while a two-story, five-window range forms a former service wing on the north-east side. The exterior walls are now rendered but originally were masonry, and the roof is slate with rectangular stone stacks. Windows throughout are recessed hornless sash windows with glazing bars.

The main entrance, on the north-west elevation, is through a limestone Doric porch with a 1631 datestone above. Flanking the entrance are square bay windows, remodelled in the 17th century, and a further recessed bay to the east. A late 18th-century addition is located to the rear (south-east) of the house, featuring a large ground-floor window on the left and a French window to the right of a central, full-height, canted bay. A rubble-walled terrace is situated behind the house, with steps leading down from the half-glazed French doorway in the canted bay.

The house is partly built over medieval stone vaulted cellars, potentially dating back to when buildings belonging to the Augustinian Priory stood on the site. The earliest part of the present house dates to the early 17th century. The original layout is not fully clear, but it may have been a double-pile house with a passage from the front entrance to the rear stairwell. The current front entrance opens into a large reception room, which contains a dressed stone fireplace from the 17th century, as do other ground-floor rooms. During renovations, the construction of some interior walls was revealed, showing original marram grass ropes woven through wooden laths to create the ‘wattle’ to which plaster would have been applied. The drawing room and two of the en-suite bedrooms in the oldest part of the house feature 17th-century bolection-moulded panelling. Panelling, likely re-used from the older part of the house, is also found in the two principal rooms on the ground floor of the 18th-century addition at the rear. The rooms in the canted bay have copper glazing bars, believed to originate from the Parys Copper Mine, and the first-floor room in the bay, known as the 'boudoir,' retains a coved ceiling.