Carreg Lwyd

Carreg Lwyd is a large Arts and Crafts style house of distinctive character. It is 2 storeys with attics, rendered white in the upper portion with green slate roof, feathered eaves and painted rendered chimney stacks. The building is strongly asymmetrical, with scattered fenestration and comprises 3 bays. The most prominent features are central gabled bays advanced to both front and rear, and a single storey wing advanced to the front at the right side.

The front elevation is dominated by the advanced central gable with its boldly sweeping catslide roof to the left. The entrance is offset to the left within this gable, set in an ashlar porch with battered piers and a chamfered segmental archway, surmounted by a shaped parapet with ball finials. Immediately left of the porch stands a 4-light mullioned window consisting of 4x10-pane sashes, positioned beneath the catslipe. To its right is a full-height canted bay window with very distinctive small-paned windows to the ground floor. The first floor has transomed windows with small-paned lower lights and smaller-paned upper lights, which form a continuous band with a 3-light oriel window positioned immediately above the porch. A Diocletian window crowns the gable apex. To the left of the gable are paired narrow small-paned sashes on each floor, with a 4-light dormer offset to the right within the roof.

The left hand gable return (south-east elevation) has a distinctive form created by the roof dipping low over the ground floor of the garden front to form an asymmetrical gable. The fenestration is carefully composed: a tripartite small-paned oriel window sits in the gable apex, with mullioned and transomed small-pane sashes either side at first floor level, and a similar window aligned to the ground floor on the right. A 5-sided bay window with small-paned sashes is offset to the left, and a similar window wraps around the left hand angle, forming part of a glazed verandah.

The rear elevation is dominated by the advanced central gable, anchored by a very tall right hand chimney stack. The gable features a full-height canted bay window with small-paned sashes and a leaded apron swept up from the wider 3-light lower window to the narrower 2-light upper window. The upper window is similarly detailed and flanked by small side lights aligned with the upper panes of its sashes. A Diocletian window crowns the apex. To the right of the gable the roof sweeps down over the verandah (now with modern glazed infill), while to the left are an original small-paned sash window to the first floor and other windows which have been renewed.

The right hand gable return (north-west elevation) contains the scullery, which has an inserted window with lower storey 8-pane and upper storey 10-pane sash windows, and a half-glazed door.

Internally, the entrance door opens to an inner porch with mosaic floor and leaded lights. The main hall has a mosaic floor of cream, green and pink tiles arranged in a fan design, and modillioned picture rails. The staircase has battered newels and a moulded handrail on pierced splats interspersed with stick balusters, rising to a window seat in the leaded light bay to the front. Original doors, picture rails and some fire surrounds remain. Other original features include a walk-in china cupboard with original fittings, a pot cupboard and a cold room with slate shelves. The ground floor toilet and cloakroom retain their original tiling and fittings, and the bell system is intact and working.