The Clock House

Built of red brick of estate manufacture, with stone quoins, and stone rear walls. Slate roofs, concealed from the front by a parapet. Two storeys. The central pavilion, designed in the English Restoration style of the late C17, stands slightly forward, with end raised rustic quoins, and is of 3 window bays, surmounted by a pediment with stone cornices, containing a clock face and scrollwork inscribed TYLWYTH EIGNION. The central doorcase with a moulded architrave, pulvinating frieze and cornice, is now converted to a 18-pane window, the stepped keystone carved with a scallop shell. To either side, C20 timber windows in the original openings, each with a keystone, and on the first floor, 3 segmental headed paned windows with eared architraves and keystones. Above the door a shaped marble tablet, possible brought in from elsewhere, reading 'Non bene vivit Homo/Nisi potat ad ostia tando/LVDOVICVS OWEN Arm./Extruxit hoc/MDCCXXVII'. (Lewis Owen died in 1729). On the left, a 4-bay wing is set back, terminating with raised stone quoins. Four-paned horned sash windows to each floor, the upper windows having brick aprons, above which is a stone plat band at the base of the brick panelled parapet. A balancing right hand wing is required but is absent. On the roof, a timber octagonal cupola added in 1812 to mark William Wynne's becoming High Sheriff of the county in 1812, with a bell-shaped lead roof terminating in a wind vane dated 1812. It contains the bell for the clock. At the rear, a tall chimney behind the main facade, carrying a gabled timber clockface presenting to the service yard. A long lean-to structure, part stone part brick, has been added along the rear, with a slate roof with small rooflights. The left wing returns at the W with a long, lower, 2-storey range also of brick with stone quoins, and having timber windows and two boarded doors, one at the far end with a blocked opposing door at the rear. Twelve-paned sash window in the gable end. The rear elevation of the wing is of 5 window bays, three on the ground floor.