Gwredog

Gwredog is an early 19th century gentry house with a basement, two main floors, and attic space. It is a three-window-wide building with a rebuilt service wing set at a right angle to the rear. The rendered exterior likely sits on rubble masonry. The slate roof has rendered gable stacks topped with caps. The main facade faces an enclosed garden to the northeast, featuring a three-window arrangement with a central entrance under a glazed timber porch. Windows are large, hornless 16-pane sashes, with moulded architraves and slate sills. The left-hand gable return has a single, central, first-floor window, and a smaller window above with narrower flanking windows; all are hornless 12-pane sashes with slate sills. The right-hand gable return has more modern windows, a mix of horned sashes and modern lights. The basement level has three windows and a doorway offset to the right, while the ground floor has two windows also offset to the right. A central stair window with coloured glass is flanked by first-floor windows, and a single attic window is set in the gable apex. The rear elevation is largely obscured by a modern flat-roofed extension replacing the former service wing, although the first floor retains two large 16-pane hornless sash windows, and the ground floor has a modern replacement casement.

The main doorway opens into a central hallway, with principal rooms on either side. A dog-leg staircase with a clasping rail on stick balusters and shaped brackets to an open string is located at the rear of the hall. Stone steps lead down to the basement, which was formerly a dairy and retains slate tables on brick piers and highly ornate tilework on the walls. This tilework features central panels with hand-painted, naturalistic designs of birds and flowers, which flank a blue and white tiled frieze depicting the daughter of the house when it was built. The central panels are surrounded by patterned ochre and cream tiles, along with a band of moulded painted tiles depicting fruit and flowers along the heads of the tiled walls. The house retains shallow panelled doors, window shutters, and soffits. Most rooms retain original fireplaces and surrounds; the ground floor dining room notably has ornate floriate tiling, a cast iron hob and surround in a plain surround with acanthus leaf bracket supports (matching brackets support a shallow arch in the hallway). The fireplace is flanked by arched glazed cupboards with interlocking glazing bars.