No 7 Llannerch Hall

Large country house of irregular plan, mainly of three storeys plus basement, constructed from stuccoed limestone and red brick on a chamfered plinth with fine sandstone dressings. The roofs are shallow-pitched and hipped, covered in slate with lead flashings. Tall 19th-century brown brick chimneys feature oversailing courses and dentilated tops.

The main south-east front presents a symmetrical three-bay primary section. This comprises a recessed central entrance bay flanked by full-height square projecting bays. The central bay has an advanced single-storey classical tripartite entrance section, nearly flush with the flanking bays and topped with a decorative balustrade. A central Tuscan portico features a moulded, round-arched entrance with projecting key and imposts. Flanking columns and pilasters lead to six moulded steps ascending to four-panel double doors with glazed upper sections and facetted lower panels. A moulded entablature and cornice return onto narrow flanking sections containing plain 19th-century sash windows with projecting stone sills. The flanking bays display tripartite sash windows to ground and first floors; those to the first floor have consoles and pediments, while those to the ground floor have moulded labels. Plain sill-corbelling runs throughout. Four-pane French windows to the first-floor central section feature simply-moulded entablatures; similar second-floor windows have volutes to the sides. A fine moulded and dentilated cornice, dating from the 1770s, spans the front with two contemporary lead downpipes featuring simple decorative hoppers to the inner returns of the projecting bays.

The north-east garden side displays plain, unhorned sashes with architraves as before and a continuous cornice. The main section extends four bays deep, with return walls of the frontal bays and a similar single-bay section to the right, respectively recessed and advanced either side of a two-bay main section. Basement access features plain railings with a segmentally-arched entrance and window to the right, including a part-glazed door. To the right, adjoining and advanced further, stands a two-storey L-shaped addition with matching cornice. A plain tripartite window appears to the main ground-floor section, with paired sashes to the recessed single-bay section at right.

The rear elevation shows random limestone rubble walling visible to the main block, of Jacobean construction. The cornice and 18th-century windows continue as before. To the right rises a tall four-storey plus basement wing of red brick, an 18th-century addition; the upper storey is modern with a flat felted roof. Twelve-pane windows to the first and second floors feature fine brick voussoirs and sit near-flush. Blocked windows appear to the left (north-east). A small light well lies between this projection and the rear of the main block, fronted by 19th-century and modern single-storey additions.

Adjoining flush to the main block on the south-west side stands a two-storey, three-bay 18th-century range, stuccoed and roofed as before, with dentilated and moulded cornice. A parapet surmounts the roof, incorporating a 19th-century pyramidally-roofed wooden bellcote and tin louvre, plus two staged 19th-century brick chimneys. Eighteenth-century segmentally-arched windows face the front on both floors with plain projecting sandstone architraves whose sills, heads and centres are quoined, featuring projecting keystones. Stepped down and adjoining to the left (south-west) stands a single-storey mid-19th-century addition of uncoursed limestone ashlar with roof hipped to the left. A moulded cornice and plain stringcourse sit above a window as before, copying the 1770s work; this has been lowered and now serves as a modern glazed entrance with a further modern window to the left. Four nine-pane sashes (modern replacements of 19th-century originals) appear at the south-west end with projecting sandstone lacing; a two-stage brick and sandstone chimney stands nearby. The long south-west side of this range comprises five bays with windows as before to the first three. The two right-hand bays accommodate a storeyed modern addition; a similar flat-roofed brick addition adjoins the ground floor of the left bay, together with a basement addition at right.

Adjoining this 18th-century range to the rear (north-west) stands an early 19th-century two-storey red brick addition featuring a wide canted, storeyed bay to the south-west. This bay has a hipped slate roof with lead ball finial and dentilated eaves, with twelve-pane modern tilting sashes to original first-floor openings and projecting sills; modern windows and door appear to the ground floor. An early 20th-century hipped-roofed red brick garage addition adjoins flush to the left. To the front extends a continuous mid-19th-century open slated pentice. This forms a single-storey covered way supported on cast iron columns set on low brick walls with sandstone copings, continuing to the left to include a segmental carriage arch providing access to the rear.

The entrance hall features an 18th-century (possibly) decorative floor of conjoined limestone flags with inset black marble squares. A dentilated plaster cornice crowns a compartmented ceiling with a classical frieze of triglyphs and rosettes; a vertically-panelled dado lines the walls. A 19th-century tripartite wooden vestibule screen contains tall four-panel double doors with leaded upper panels and flanking classical pilasters, topped with heavily-moulded cornices and facetted decoration to plinths. A full-height cantilevered stone corkscrew service stair of 18th-century date serves the building, with panelled doors and door and window reveals throughout.

At the end of the entrance hall ascends a fine 1770s staircase sequence reaching from the ground to the second floor. The first section, from ground to first floor, was originally a narrow well stair with quarterpaces and a first-floor galleried landing; the well was infilled during the 19th century to form a service passage. The second stage, from first to second floor, comprises a large sweeping well stair with corkscrew flight. Oak treads and risers feature scrolled and moulded tread-ends and fine octagonal oak balusters with stopped-chamfered decoration. Elegant swept, moulded handrails of mahogany end in spiral twists with columnar balusters. Large stair windows to each floor incorporate heraldic stained glass, those to the ground and first floors dated 1867. The ground and second floors contain windows incorporating fine 17th-century enamelled quarries, as well as some 18th-century enamelled heraldic panels.