Siambr Wen

Siambr Wen is a two-storey building dating from the 18th century, with later additions and alterations. The main front, facing southwest, has a symmetrical design, featuring a crenellated parapet, octagonal end turrets, and freestone stringcourses and dressings. It has a three-window front with an additional window to the right. The windows are 4-centred arched, each with a label and freestone lintel. The outer first-floor windows are small-pane sashes with Y-tracery heads; the central one is a similar casement window. The ground floor has French windows. A square porch, mirroring the parapet and turrets, has a 4-centred arch doorway with a label and a 6-panel Gothick door, flanked by 12-pane sash windows. To the left of the main building is a single-storey range with a splayed bay window topped with a hipped pyramidal roof and freestone detailing, with linked labels over 4-centred arches and French windows in the centre. Cusped eaves valences run along the bargeboards of the twin-gabled ends, which have pendants and tall finials. The windows in this range are 4-pane sashes with similar tracery heads. A rear porch provides access to the rear of the property. The rear of the main house has been rebuilt and has small-pane casement windows, twin gables, and the crenellated parapet continues from the southeast side; a former rear corner turret is preserved.

A garage at the rear contains medieval stone slabs set vertically into the wall. These slabs likely originate from Valle Crucis Abbey, were subsequently incorporated into the rebuilding of the Llangollen bridge in the 16th or 17th century, and were rediscovered by Henry Robertson during railway alterations to the bridge. They were then placed in the garden and set into the garage walls in recent years, likely dating from around 1300.

The main ground floor rooms feature squared cross beams with cornice mouldings. There are 6-panel doors, with unusually deep reveals, a characteristic repeated on the upper floor. Reused stop-chamfered ceiling beams from the former kitchen are now in a first-floor bedroom. A 1st-floor landing probably has an earlier 18th-century cornice. The staircase is of Regency style. A picture of the house by Henry Robertson’s aunt is in the drawing room.