Aberbraint

Aberbraint is a two-storey, triple-depth plan house dating from the 18th century, with an entrance front facing south. It is arranged as a three-window range flanked by single-storey pavilion blocks to either side, with a larger parallel rear range. A single-storey parallel subsidiary wing extends to the rear and three gables project from the main rear range. The house is constructed of grey grit rendered walls with a slate roof featuring projecting verges, plain bargeboards, and rendered stacks.

The front elevation presents a symmetrical two-storey, three-window, three-gable range, with single-storey, hipped-roofed wings on either side. The central bay is slightly advanced, with the main entrance recessed under a shallow four-centred arch flanked by piers of three engaged columns with lion's head capitals. Larger engaged columns, also of three, stand either side of the entrance, supporting a narrow portico. The doorway is framed by vine leaf decorated panels flanked by triple engaged columns and features a single-panel door with ornate moulding, a guilloche moulding to the lock stile, and a 24-pane upper light. Within the entrance are reset 15th or 16th century misericords depicting a human figure on a bridled horse and another of an angel holding a shield. Above the entrance is a four-light canted oriel window with a lattice-work parapet, supported by turned newel-style piers with human head corbels. The flanking bays have three-light casement windows with moulded hood bands, and similar windows are recessed in elliptical arches within the flanking single-storeyed blocks. A single window on the right-hand end incorporates reset traceried lights. Gables contain wall posts supported on reset corbels.

A double-depth service wing and stable are located to the rear, featuring asymmetrically planned windows and modern doorways resulting from mid-20th century conversion.

The interior is organised around a central staircase plan. The main entrance opens into a panelled hallway, which leads through to a central hallway containing a staircase with a wreathed and ramped handrail, foliate brackets (circa 1700) supporting the cut string, and turned, decorated balusters and newels. A room to the left of the main entrance hallway retains some panelling, a 17th-century composite mantel with decorative moulding, guilloche moulding above the window, and a doorway featuring key pattern work and an 18th-century frieze of egg and dart moulding above a vine leaf design. This doorway leads to a sitting room with a moulded frieze and guilloche moulding above the window. A room to the right has key pattern work and guilloche moulding around the window, and a further room to the far right displays key pattern work and a moulded frieze. Other interior features include reset corbels of human heads, some supporting moulded decorative brackets, tiled fireplaces in some rooms, one with a fine marble surround.