Cerrigllwydion Hall

Cerrigllwydion Hall is a medium-sized, 2-storey country house of brick construction with scribed stucco to the main elevations and plain rendered chimneys. It has hipped slate roofs, with the principal section featuring deep, feathered eaves. The building consists of a main 3-bay block with lower service ranges adjoining to the right and rear around a small light-well.

The main section presents a symmetrical facade with an advanced central entrance bay topped by a shallow gable with deep verges. A stone plaque inset in the apex bears the initials E E and L, together with the date 1787. The entrance itself comprises 20th-century arched boarded double doors with a 6-panel door within, flanked by narrow 4-pane sections which are part-glazed. An early 20th-century tetrastyle portico with slender Tuscan columns and a flat roof with moulded and dentilated cornice stands in front of the entrance, topped with modern flanking urn finials. The primary windows are 12-pane recessed unhorned sashes to both floors, with 20th-century 8-pane outer casement sections to the ground floor and above the entrance, featuring projecting stone sills.

The south-east elevation of the main block comprises 3 bays, the two right-hand bays having a similar portico projection with the left-hand bay recessed. Windows and secondary glazing follow the same pattern as the front elevation.

Adjoining the facade to the right is a single-storey dining room block with a hipped roof and canted bay, featuring 8-pane sashes with 8-pane outer casements. The right-hand window extends full-length to 10 panes in a French window arrangement. A hipped return to the north-west has an 8-pane sash plus casement. Beyond this, slightly advanced in front, is a 2-storey 2-bay section, hipped and stuccoed in the same manner. It has a shaved left-hand corner at ground floor level with an 8-pane glazed entrance and a plain 2-pane later 19th-century sash above. The right bay contains a 2-storey canted bay with 8-pane sashes and narrow 4-pane side sections.

The rear of the main block is roughcast with asymmetrically-placed windows, including a near-flush 16-pane sash and a 9-pane round-arched window with intersecting tracery lights. Adjoining to the left is a 2-bay section of a partly-demolished wing, advanced at right-angles. Its original south-west side displays two 8-pane casements and a 12-pane sash to the first floor. Between these stands a reset, renewed stone plaque bearing the carved initials E, E and L with the date 1783. The ground floor incorporates a modern conservatory with associated verandah and modern part-glazed doors.

Interior features include a double-width entrance hall, formerly divided, with twin arches leading to the rear and plain architraves and cornice. The drawing room, accessed to the left from the hall, contains an Adamesque fireplace of grey figured marble with plain cornice and a 6-panel door. Double doors from the hall lead to the former dining room, which has a Regency reeded doorcase, a plasterwork cornice with palmette decoration, and an Adam-style plasterwork ceiling rose. A classical chimneypiece of white and grey marble with relief-carved frieze decoration ornaments this room. From the rear of the hall, a service corridor and principal stair provide access. The stair is of dogleg type with a mahogany rail, stick balusters, and oak treads and risers.