Glasgoed Hall

Glasgoed Hall

A substantially built house of two storeys, with three storeys over cellar to the west wing. The building is constructed of roughly coursed rubblestone, with parts roughcast, and ashlar dressings to the original openings and to the coped verges of the slate roofs.

The east elevation of the main block is in two distinct sections. The northern section is higher and features an end stack at the junction with the lower part, which has a catslide outshut and may originally be slightly earlier. A projecting two-storey gabled porch projects to the right of the lower section. This porch contains a round-headed doorway with moulded jambs, a hoodmould and naively-carved head-stops. Internally splayed slit windows flank the doorway. Directly above the doorway is a slightly recessed date tablet with a dripmould, inscribed "1657/OW 41/EW 38", recording Owen and Elin Wynne and their ages at the time of the porch's erection. Immediately above this is a three-light mullioned and transomed window with a dripmould. The apex of the gable contains an ashlar integral end stack with moulded capping.

The west side (rear) of this range has three irregularly spaced windows on each floor. These were originally four-paned sashes, though those to the right of a half-glazed door (immediately to the right of a nineteenth-century purple brick ridge stack) are now top-hung replacements. A similar integral end stack stands to the right.

The north side of the west wing is arranged in three bays with sash windows on all floors. These are twelve-paned to left and right, and sixteen-paned to the centre on the first floor, with nine-pane windows directly under the eaves on the second floor. All are unhorned with slate cills. A doorway opens to the left on the ground floor. A substantial integral end stack of dressed stone with slate drips stands to the right, flanked by two attic windows, with further windows on the right to the ground and first floors. A similar stack stands on the left at the junction with the main north-south range, which has a crow-stepped gable end projecting to the north. A twentieth-century lean-to addition in front of this gable continues to the right, overlapping the eastern part of the west wing.

The south wall of the west wing has a similar lean-to on the left, concealing from view a three-light mullion window with moulded dripstone. A projecting gabled staircase projection stands to the right, with battens for former slate hanging, a twelve-paned sash window on the first floor and a two-light window on the ground floor, both with slate cills.

Internal inspection of the earlier, now unoccupied parts was not possible at the time of survey due to poor structural condition and alleged dry rot. However, the main room of the west wing is said to contain good early eighteenth-century panelling and a six-panel door. A section of similar panelling has been reset at the foot of the stair, inscribed "1738/D/E.M." The staircase itself is of dog-leg form, though mortises in its woodwork suggest it was formerly of open-well type and may have been moved from elsewhere in the building. Much early seventeenth-century work survives in the present staircase, including the carved finials and pendants to its square newels, the handrail and turned balusters with square central knops. A twentieth-century inscription on the staircase reads "T. 1600 RESTORED 1900 H." Twentieth-century stained glass fills a ground-floor staircase window.

A small corner fireplace in the room over the porch has attached Doric columns with moulded capitals and bases. The lintel bears a raised horizontal strap with a central blank shield.