Bryn Eithin

Bryn Eithin is a house designed in a free Elizabethan style, planned with a central hall flanked by gabled wings to the entrance front, and a service wing set on the main axis to the west. The main range is built of coursed and squared rock-faced stone with freestone dressings. The plain tiled roof features oversailing eaves and brick axial stacks, with star-shaped shafts to the main hall chimney. A glazed lantern with an ogival leaded cupola surmounts the roof over the hall range. The service wing has tile-hanging with scalloped bands in the upper storey. Throughout the building, windows are leaded.

The entrance front displays shallow coped gabled wings to either side of the short hall range, with the entrance set to the right of the left-hand (west) gable. The door has a cavetto moulded architrave and recessed porch with curved hood mould. A small two-light mullioned window stands alongside it, with three-light mullioned windows on each floor above. The inner doorway is segmentally arched with a ribbed and nailed wood door. The hall features large six-light mullioned and transomed windows above, with a continuous sill band linking these upper windows to the four-light mullioned and transomed lights at ground floor level of this gable. The service wing has wood mullioned windows of four and five lights; a transomed window to the left of the ground floor projects slightly in a moulded wood case, and the tile-hanging of the upper storey above it is thrown slightly forward as a hood. Upper windows sit immediately below the eaves.

The east elevation displays a large canted two-storeyed bay window with an embattled parapet, the ground floor containing a mullioned window with two transoms and the upper floor a single transom. A side doorway rises via stone steps with a segmentally arched opening, curved hood mould, and ribbed nailed door. A truncated stone stack stands to the right of the doorway. Beyond this, wood mullioned and transomed windows occupy a two-storeyed rendered bay window.

The rear elevation features mullioned windows of two and three lights in the wide left-hand gable, with a shallow canted mullioned and transomed bay window beyond and an upper window of one and four lights set high beneath the eaves with a continuous sill band. A crow-stepped gable return frames the composition. The service wing is set back, with mullioned windows on each floor not always aligned. Three gabled four-light dormer windows are set high in the roof. The heads of the principal transomed lower windows are cut into the tile-hanging of the upper storey. In the return gable of the service wing, single-storey outbuildings are linked by a lean-to outbuilding to form a small courtyard.

Although change of use has resulted in some internal alterations, much original character remains. The entrance hall is executed in late 17th-century style: it is wood-panelled with segmental arches dividing the hall from lobbies to either side. The open-well staircase has turned balusters and leads to a large upper gallery with coupled shafts carrying segmental arches above the stair wall. Dado panelling and a segmentally arched stone fireplace with a panelled arcaded overmantle are present. The dining room opens off the hall and has a painted panelled dado and ceiling beams. Panelled doors feature fluted pilaster architraves. A fireplace with Corinthian columns to the overmantle and a deep frieze with low-relief, stylised railed foliage decoration complete the room's character.