Tyn-y-Coed

Tyn-y-Coed is a large Gothic former country house and convalescent home. It is built in two storeys with an attic, constructed of snecked rock-faced stone with freestone dressings, a slate roof behind coped gables on moulded kneelers, and white-brick chimney stacks. Windows to the main elevations have stone mullions.

The building was constructed in phases. The original house dates to 1878 and originally comprised approximately seven bays (bays 3 to 9). Two wide bays were added at the left end (bays 1 and 2) in 1899 and 1927 respectively, and three bays were added at the right end (bays 10 to 12) in 1927. The front elevation is asymmetrical throughout.

In the original 1878 section, asymmetry is emphasised by an advanced gabled bay (bay 5) and the entrance positioned in gabled bay 7. The entrance consists of a panel door in a rounded-headed mullioned surround with leaded overlight and side lights. Above it sits a two-light window beneath a pointed tympanum and hood mould with foliage stops, all under a gable. To the left, bay 6 contains a pair of transomed ground-floor windows beneath two tall pointed stair windows with tracery and a linked hood. To the right, bay 8 has pairs of cross windows and an added flat-roof two-light dormer, while the narrower bay 9 has simpler transomed windows. The projecting bay 5 is more richly ornamented, featuring a two-storey five-light transomed window and a basement with two windows. Its parapet displays cusped arcading and a central arched panel with a lion in low relief, while dragon gargoyles sit on the angles of the parapet string course. The gable kneelers have similar cusping and stone pinnacles. Bays 3 and 4 further left have transomed windows.

The left-hand added bays (1 and 2) form a continuous elevation with bays 3 to 4, with a hipped roof to the end. This section retains original cast-iron rainwater goods. Set well back from the end, bay 1 has a full-height canted bay window beneath a hipped roof and weathervane, with cross windows in each facet. This was likely built as a corner turret in 1899 (as shown on the 1913 Ordnance Survey) and was altered to form a bay window when the wall was extended to the left in 1927. Bay 2 features a two-storey canted bay window with five-light transomed windows and replacement steel-framed casements. This bay window has a parapet of cusped arcading incorporating a central stepped gable with a blank shield, flanked by small first-floor windows. A flat-roof dormer is a later addition.

On the right-hand added section, bays 10 and 11 are brought forward under gables with loops, while the narrower bay 12 is set back with transomed windows. Bays 10 and 11 both have three-light transomed first-floor windows above a single wide five-light transomed canted bay window on the ground floor. The right end wall comprises three bays, of which the outer bays have hipped roofs. The narrower central bay features a full-height porch with parapet containing replacement half-glazed doors beneath a mullioned overlight on the ground floor and an original half-glazed door with mullioned overlight on the first floor, accessed by a modern escape stair. The outer bays have stone cross windows on the ground floor. A paved terrace of rock-faced stone with freestone coping is built around the front and side walls of bays 10 to 12.

The rear of bays 10 to 12 mirrors the front, with the narrower bay 12 and gabled bays 10 and 11. Windows are three-light with casements and transoms on the first floor. Between the gables is a rainwater head dated 1927. Set further back to the right, the rear of the original building has a different bay structure from the front. Windows mostly have wood-framed mullions and transoms in dressed-stone surrounds. At the left end are transomed windows, followed by a first-floor four-light stone mullioned and transomed window with hood mould and foliage stops above a lean-to containing two large wood-framed transomed windows. Next are two wooden cross windows over a flat projection, then a two-storey hipped rear wing dating to 1899. On the right side of this wing is a lean-to porch (opposite entrance bay 7) with a cross window, followed by single, pair, and single cross windows to the right on the ground floor, with corresponding single cross windows on the first floor. This section has three stone gabled dormers: the left has a single window, the central has a pair of four-pane sashes, and the right is obscured by an added two-and-a-half-storey rear wing of pebble-dashed brick with a slate roof. To the right of this wing is the rear of the 1899 section, featuring an open lean-to porch with a half-glazed door and overlight, flanked by wooden cross windows on the ground floor and a similar window to the left of centre on the first floor. The end wall of bay 1 has a double-pile hipped roof, the rear pile of 1899 being narrower. It has thin external stone stacks framing central replacement doors on the ground and first floors, with escape stairs. To the right, the front pile of 1927 has two cross windows on the ground floor and a three-light transomed first-floor window, all with stone dressings. Further left in the rear pile are two wood-framed windows on the ground floor and a replacement door to an escape stair on the first floor.

Interior

The entrance hall contains an open-well stair with turned balusters and newels. The hall has a plaster cornice with emblems in relief.