Craig y Mor

Craig y Mor is a large house built in the 1930s in a restrained neo-Georgian style. The main part of the house is two storeys and five windows wide, with a two-storey, four-window wing set at a right angle to form an L-shaped plan. A further, lower wing extends from the original, incorporating a servants' wing, garage, and boathouse. The walls are constructed of local snecked rubble masonry with freestone dressings. A continuous plat band runs along the ground floor, with a stressed course above. The roof is covered in small green slates, with hipped gable dormers and tall rectangular axial stacks of snecked masonry featuring corbel courses. Windows are recessed 12-pane hornless sashes. A zig-zag flight of steps, bordered by stepped snecked rubble walls, leads to the entrance porch in the angle of the L-shaped plan. The porch has a separate roof and an open loggia to the right, housing the entrance. The door itself is panelled, set within a stressed surround with a stepped voussoir keystone. To the left of the door is a stressed window feature, consisting of coupled sashes divided by an ashlar panel. A hipped gable dormer is present in the porch roof. The rear elevation, overlooking the sea, is strongly symmetrical, with a central two-window range flanked by advanced rectangular bays containing ground-floor loggias. These loggias have tall French windows with margin panes. The central part of the rear elevation has a ground-floor tripartite sash window flanked by narrower sashes. The first floor has two 12-pane sash windows and a central hipped-gabled dormer with a tripartite sash, positioned between the chimneys. The flanking bays also have first-floor tripartite sash windows. The left gable return features similarly detailed windows and a hipped gable dormer. The right gable return has a full-height canted bay with 12-pane sashes and a hipped gable dormer in its roof, which continues as the rear of the advanced wing with scattered sash windows of varying sizes. The service block at the end of the advanced wing is lower in height, linked by a block featuring three metal-grilled windows. A hipped roof covers this section, with a garage and boathouse at opposing ends, and first-floor sash windows set beneath hipped gable dormers. A two-storey caretaker’s house is located at the far end.