Baron Hill

A ruined large Georgian country house, mainly of rendered brick and entirely roofless. The 2-storey W entrance front has a 7-bay main range with 3 further bays advanced on the L and 4 bays advanced on the R. An entrance portico has 4 Tuscan columns on high bases, Doric entablature and balustrade. The lower storey is rusticated in the main range. In the upper storey the 3 central bays have round-headed windows and the outer bays architraves with pediments and balustrades. On the L-hand side is a dated rainwater head of 1838. Much of the parapet balustrade has survived. The 3 bays at the L end have architraves to the upper-storey windows and in the lower storey more elaborate architraves, the central with a segmental pediment. To the R, are 3 similar bays and a plainer 4th bay.

The 4-bay N front has windows in architraves. Between storeys, where the brickwork is exposed, are blind segmental-headed windows in the outer bays and blocked oculi to the centre, part of Wyatt's original design.

The E garden front best preserves the spirit of Wyatt's house, although reduced by a storey and with windows and doors opened to a terrace offering views over the park to the Beaumaris Castle and the mountains beyond. It has 3 advanced bays in the centre dominated by a central full-height bow with parapet balustrade, a further bay set back on either side (effectively remodelled cross wings of the Jacobean house) and then lower polygonal outer bays. The lower storey is rusticated and the upper storey windows have architraves with pediments, as do the lower-storey windows of the outer bays.

On the SW side of the house is a massive 3-storey service block of rubble-stone with brick dressings, nearly square in plan. On the W side it is formed of 2 broad pedimented bays, between which are gate piers leading to an inner courtyard. On the S side is a rainwater head dated 1838.

The interior of the house is gutted. At the N end are cast iron girders inserted in place of original beams. In the centre of the house is a 3-storey rubble-stone wall with mullioned window in the upper storey, the only visible architectural feature of the original Jacobean house.