Gwyndy

Gwyndy

A private house designed in the Arts and Crafts style, incorporating neo-vernacular and Jacobethan elements. The building presents an irregular plan across two storeys with an additional dormer floor. The main section features a hipped roof, with an off-centre storeyed porch and 2-storey wings flanking either side. The right-hand wing is slightly advanced and topped with a gable in the form of an open pediment; the left-hand wing has a similar arrangement facing the rear.

The construction is of roughcast over brick with a tiled roof. The brick chimneys have simply-decorated upper sections corbelled out, and deep eaves and verges are trimmed with flat wooden guttae.

The porch is constructed of red brick with fine buff-coloured sandstone dressings, including banding to define the windows and counter-changed decoration to the upper section. It has a parapeted flat roof with shallow coped gables. The entrance itself is round-arched, deeply-splayed and moulded, with flush flanking buttresses to right and left. The porch floor is tiled with simple marginal decoration and a panelled ceiling. The round-arched entrance has rubbed brick jambs and voussoirs, with an original door featuring a panelled lower section and a 12-pane segmentally-arched upper section topped by a multi-pane arched fanlight. Above the entrance is an undressed sandstone block. This was originally a sandstone tablet carved with the patron's initials 'OME', but the architect Edwards chose to reverse it during insertion as a gesture of modesty. The upper floor has a 3-light mullioned window, whilst single-light rectangular windows occupy the returns on both floors. Windows throughout feature rectangular leaded quarries.

To the left of the porch is a 5-light casement window with 8 panes per light, and a 4-light window to the first floor with 6 panes per light. To the right is a large multi-pane stair window with random bullseye panes, beyond which sits a single-storey flat-roofed leaded bow window with similar casement sections and a 3-pane window above.

The cross-wing to the far right is now physically separated from the main house and constitutes Gwyndy as a separate dwelling. This section has a 5-light ground-floor window, with an advanced, jettied upper section carried on scrolled wooden brackets. The first floor contains a flat-roofed, canted oriel window with flanking lights and an ocular window in the gable apex. Three flat-roofed dormer windows punctuate the central section.

The left side displays two large canted, storeyed bays with flat roofs and casements matching those elsewhere. Between these bays is a single-light sandstone window at ground floor with decorative lozenge motif above. The rear elevation features 5-light windows to the gabled right section and 3 dormers to the central section. The ground and first floors contain 2, 3 and 5-light windows, with boarded doors to the right and left of the main section; the latter incorporates a 2-light window. A single-storey red brick wash house and store adjoins the rear elevation, advanced to the left, with a segmental arch leading to a passage and a brick gable-end chimney. A modern lean-to adjoins the main section to the right.

The interior was not inspected at the time of survey.