The Clock House

The Clock House is a late 17th-century building, originally constructed of red brick manufactured on the estate, with stone quoins and stone rear walls. The slate roof is largely hidden by a parapet. The building is two storeys high and comprises a central pavilion, flanked by projecting wings.

The central pavilion, designed in the English Restoration style, stands slightly forward and features three window bays. It is topped by a pediment with stone cornices, containing a clock face and decorative scrollwork bearing the inscription “TYLWYTH EIGNION”. A doorcase, originally with a moulded architrave, pulvinating frieze and cornice, has been converted into a window with 18 panes, the stepped keystone carved with a scallop shell. To either side of the doorway, 20th-century timber windows fill the original openings, each with a keystone. Above the door, a shaped marble tablet displays the Latin inscription "Non bene vivit Homo/Nisi potat ad ostia tando/LVDOVICVS OWEN Arm./Extruxit hoc/MDCCXXVII", which commemorates Lewis Owen (died 1729). The first floor features three segmental-headed paned windows with eared architraves and keystones.

A four-bay wing is set back to the left, ending with raised stone quoins. This wing contains four-paned horned sash windows on each floor; the upper windows have brick aprons, with a stone plat band at the base of the brick-panelled parapet. A balancing wing is absent on the right.

In 1812, an octagonal timber cupola was added to the roof to celebrate William Wynne’s appointment as High Sheriff of the county. It has a bell-shaped lead roof and a wind vane dated 1812, and contains the bell for the clock. A gabled timber clock face is visible from the rear, presenting to the service yard.

A long lean-to structure, part stone and part brick with a slate roof and rooflights, extends along the rear of the building. To the west, the left wing returns with a two-storey range of brick with stone quoins, containing timber windows and two boarded doors, one at the far end with a blocked opposing door at the rear. A twelve-paned sash window is located in the gable end. The rear elevation of the wing has five window bays, three on the ground floor.