Castell Deudraeth

Castell Deudraeth is a medium-sized country house built in the castellated style, likely dating to the 19th century. The house is constructed from local slatestone with dressed slatestone and yellow sandstone dressings, and has slate roofs. The main body of the house is a three-storey, four-bay central block, with a taller, keep-like block set back to the left, and a square tower projecting to the right. The flanking tower sections are four storeys high, with blind, faux cross-loops on the upper floors. Crenellated and corbelled parapets run throughout the building. The keep-like block, located on the south east side, is two generous bays wide and features an octagonal tower on the front (eastern) corner, which extends upwards for another stage. Sandstone cross-windows are present throughout, with two-light windows on the second floor of the central section and slit-lights in the octagonal tower; a label-course is visible on the second floor of the south east block. A large, single-storey porch projects from in front of the south east block, set at an angle with the main section, featuring a segmentally-arched entrance and thin octagonal corner turrets rising above a crenellated parapet; slit-lights are present on the returns. An advanced, parapeted bay of one storey is positioned between the porch and the large octagonal corner tower to the left.

The south east (left) elevation, facing the drive, is characterised by cross-windows similar to those elsewhere, and a large canted bay window on the ground floor; the parapet is corbelled but lacks crenellations. The rear (garden) facade presents a central, primary block without castellated features and a gable on the left. It features 12- and 15-pane sash windows and cross-windows on the ground floor. A modern, single-storey, rectangular conservatory-style addition is located on the right.

The entrance hall has restored large-field oak panelling, which is raised and fielded, with depressed-arched niches flanking a central fireplace on the left wall. Outer depressed arched entrances have architraves and fielded panelled reveals. The stone fireplace features a heavily-moulded semi-circular arch with sculpted figures of a knight (left) and a bard (right) acting as label stops. The ceiling is divided into three bays with lateral panelled divisions, with simple plaster ribbing to the ceiling margins. The floor is laid with quarry-flagged black and grey slate. The eastern room (front left) has Gothic panelled reveals and shutters, alongside a marble chimneypiece dating back to around 1840 featuring acanthus relief carving.