Cefnamwlch

Cefnamwlch is a country house of late 17th to early 18th century origin, substantially enlarged and modified through the 19th century. The main building comprises a 3-storey, 5-window range facing north with pebbledash rendering, close eaved slate roof, and stone end stacks. Long service ranges extend westward from the west end and southward from the east end.

The main house features hornless sashes: 9-pane windows to the top floor and 12-pane below. The ground floor has an earlier 19th century former open veranda, now enclosed and stuccoed, with three 12-pane sashes on each side of a broad French window and a 6-panel door. The veranda is hipped at the left end and returns open along the east side for 5 bays with timber posts, hipped at the left end and with an open gable in the centre. The left side is 20th century, built over the site of a demolished 1877 wing. At the main house east end are a casement pair on the first floor left over a long 20th century 18-pane window, and a 20-pane square window to the right, both within the veranda beneath the open gable. The left 2 bays of the veranda front the right end of the southeast range. The rear of the main house has a broad centre chimney gable and a 2-storey lean-to with a long 20-pane stair-light in the angle to the southeast range.

The long southeast service range is pebbledashed to the right then roughcast, with tall stone stacks—2 on the ridge and one at the left end. A plain 2-storey elevation of mixed fenestration, mostly sashes with some casements, forms roughly an 8-window range; the further end is clearly a later 19th century addition. The rear left has various lean-tos, some glazed from the 19th century, and a tall 19th century wing running west with an off-centre chimney gable to the south and a 4-window range of large sash or pivot windows. A coach entry with a brick 4-centred arch lies in the rear of the southeast range beyond this wing.

The range running west from the main house west end is also very long and 2 storeys. Its north front is pebbledashed over an 8-bay open veranda with three square 12-pane sashes set over the left 4 bays, said to be 19th century infill, the remainder windowless. The ground floor is stuccoed with one similar sash in the fourth bay and a door in the seventh bay. One stone ridge stack stands to the right of the upper windows. Beyond, the range continues in rubble stone with one ground floor many-paned triple casement with top-lights. Beyond a garden wall linking to a gatehouse, the range has 3 well-spaced eaves-breaking triple casements with top-lights under dormer gables, aligned over similar windows at centre and right. Broad double doors under a brick arch stand to the left, with another similar window left of centre and a door with cambered head and overlight in a 19th century timber-framed gabled porch right of centre. The rear of this range has varied sash windows and 2 massive stone wall-face stacks. From the left end a coach-house range (separately listed) runs south. Beyond this, the range rear is an outshut with 2 tall brick stacks on the slope and a door between 16-pane sashes to the south.

The southwest coach-house range is long, lofted to the east and single-storey to the west.

The main house appears to date from the late 17th to early 18th century. It originally had dormers before being raised to a full second floor in the early 19th century. Two large ground floor rooms were enlarged in the earlier or mid 19th century to accommodate a veranda. The main south wall fireplace was altered in the 19th century. The interior features low ceilings, plastered beams, 18th century panelled doors, and a staircase now rising from the rear parallel to the front rooms, formerly beginning in a centre hall. First floor doors and doorways have bolection moulding dating to around 1700, as do some of the fireplaces. The roof, open to the second floor, is early 19th century sawn timber.

The west service range beyond the infill was formerly known as the 'Mule Stables' and contains heavy stop-chamfered beams dating to around 1700. The southeast range is later 19th century at its far end and rear wing, though the first 15 metres has massive walls possibly dating to the later 17th century. A ground floor office at the north end of the southeast range contains 18th century cupboards.