Aberartro Hall

Aberartro Hall is an Arts and Crafts gentry house designed in a free Tudor Gothic style. The building employs snecked rubble masonry with large stones used as quoins and lintels, complemented by freestone dressings. Windows throughout feature unmoulded mullions with leaded lights. Slate roofs are close-eaved with hipping at the external gable towards the south; tall and broad chimney stacks carry dripstones and cappings.

The house is planned as a long range aligned northwest to southeast, linked to a lower service range to form a courtyard on the entrance elevation. Access is gained via an archway through the service range.

The entrance elevation displays balanced asymmetry with three main accents: paired advanced gables to the right, a near-centre storeyed porch, and a small projecting block to the left. The entrance bay is expressed as a tower with a machicolated high parapet pierced by a short length of balustrade in ashlar, rising above a slight oriel window comprising paired arched lights with a foliate swag apron. Below this is a moulded arched entrance. A single bay to the right contains long mullioned windows on each floor. The paired gables advanced beyond feature single light windows and an advanced flat-roofed tower with a corbelled feature housing a mullioned window to the first floor. To the left of the entrance, a three-window range is irregularly fenestrated with flat-roofed dormers in the roof above; the right-hand first-floor window is slightly corbelled out within an ashlar panel. An advanced three-storeyed bay rises through the eaves line with a corbel table over a round-arched ground-floor window and small mullioned windows above. A single bay beyond links to the single-storeyed service range.

The garden front is also carefully asymmetrical in a more informal style, with paired gables towards the left identically detailed with long mullioned windows to ground and first floors and smaller attic lights. Three bays to the right are balanced with long mullioned windows and a doorway in the central bay, with flat-roofed dormers in the roof.

The service ranges are single-storeyed with attics and hipped roofs topped by a small cupola over the entrance. Small mullioned windows and gabled dormers punctuate the elevation. A round-arched entrance occupies the external elevation towards the left, with a gabled loading bay to the attic immediately to its left. A small turret emphasises the corner to the right, followed by a plain four-bay return elevation. The inner face of this range contains three garages, though a slightly advanced five-light mullioned window in the gable return suggests a change of use. A stable stands immediately left of the archway on the inner elevation with a plain doorway. Under the arch to the right are doorways to feed and harness rooms.

The porch contains a half-glazed entry with panels of leaded lights incorporating original William Morris floriate patterns. Though the panels are early 21st-century work, their design maintains consistency with the building's character. The principal rooms occupy the northern end of the main range, with service rooms to the south.

Ground-floor rooms in the main part of the hall feature wooden floors and light oak panelling throughout. The main hall or sitting room has a massive dressed stone fireplace recessed into an alcove at the north end. A wide staircase with moulded rail and stick balusters leads to the first floor, with a similarly detailed staircase rising to the attic rooms. Some first-floor rooms are accessed beneath smooth arches with keystones and retain original cast-iron fireplaces with tiled surrounds.

Service rooms open off a corridor at the southern end of the range. Several retain original fittings including cupboards, sinks, tiling, and slate shelving in pantries and larders.