Glan Yr Afon

Glan Yr Afon is a late-Georgian style gentry house, dating from the late 18th century. It is a two-storey, three-window house, with the openings deliberately offset to the right, and a central entrance. The exterior is roughcast, set beneath a hipped slate roof with a central stone stack. A dressed stone plinth runs along the base, and wide boarded eaves are visible. An open wooden porch with a round-arched entrance, supported on timber posts, features a flat, moulded roof with brackets carved with incised quatrefoils. Inside the porch is a moulded wooden doorcase with a round-arched head, framing a six-panel door and a fanlight with radial glazing. To the left of the porch is a small four-pane sash window. The flanking windows to the entrance and on the upper storey are hornless sashes with sixteen panes, set in moulded surrounds and with flat heads and stone sills; the window above the porch is slightly higher than the others. A round-arched window with nine panes and radial glazing is located on the far left, and it may not be original; a corresponding offset in the wall above may relate to an earlier building. Two small skylights are visible on the front roof slope. The west end features a gabled attic dormer with a two-light wooden casement, positioned above an adjoining service wing.

The east end has an asymmetrical roofline, incorporating a shallow, full-height outshut adjoining the north side. A half-glazed panelled door is offset to the right, flanked by sixteen-pane sashes. The upper storey of the outshut has a sixteen-pane sash on the left and a four-over-eight-pane sash on the right. The rear of the outshut has a sixteen-pane hornless sash with stained glass on the ground floor and a twelve-pane hornless sash above, along with a gabled attic dormer with a two-light wooden casement. To the right, a slightly lower lean-to has two small two-light casements on the ground floor, and a twentieth-century wooden window is located to the left on the upper storey. The right-hand return, at the angle with the service wing, has two narrow small-pane windows to the upper storey, while the lower storey is not visible.

The single-storey service wing is constructed of rubble stone under a slate roof, with a stone ridge stack. The front features a mid-to-late twentieth-century four-light wooden casement with brick reveals and a concrete lintel; to the far left is a three-light wooden casement with brick reveals. A boundary wall runs at right angles, extending into the adjoining property to a modern house. The rear of the service wing is not visible, but a skylight is present on the roof slope. The interior of the main house has not been inspected.