Rhyd-y-Cilgwyn

Rhyd-y-Cilgwyn is a storeyed gentry house of roughcast rubble construction under a slate roof, with a two-and-a-half storey H-plan main block and a one-and-a-half storey L-shaped service wing adjoining to the right. The house has central chimneys, each with four grouped octagonal brick stacks topped with moulded sandstone cappings.

The main facade is symmetrical, comprising three large bays with a central recessed entrance bay set between flanking gabled wings. The eaves overhang and are finished with deep verges decorated with moulded bargeboards and geometric wooden finials. A single-storey flat-roofed entrance hall, extruded in the central bay between the wings, has an oak balustrade with turned balusters. The central entrance is accessed via an open porch projection with a flat lead roof and dentilated oak cornice, reached by steps from the sides. The roof features sloping leaded parapets to each face in Chinoiserie style, surmounted by three lead pineapple finials said to have come from Pool Park. The front of the porch structure is formed from sections of a fine second-quarter 17th-century stair, possibly also from early Pool Park, consisting of four oak newel posts with geometric finials and three sections of staircase balustrading with carved, shaped and pierced balusters. The entrance door is a 19th-century four-panel door with the upper two panels glazed.

Windows to the front are Tudorbethan in style with square wooden cross-windows at ground and first-floor levels. The mullions and transoms are placed decoratively in front of the glazing rather than forming part of it; the windows are effectively 16-pane unhorned sashes. Upper windows have three-light wooden mullions with wooden latticed glazing, set beneath tooled and dressed limestone lintels. The central recessed section has a large gabled dormer to its attic floor with a three-light latticed window.

The left side has a first-floor rectangular oriel window with a blind three-light mullioned and transomed window, flanked by narrow six-pane part-opening casements. The ground floor features a modern conservatory addition along its full length containing two glazed 20th-century outer doors. The rear elevation has a projecting cross-gable to the left and a flush corresponding gable to the right, with asymmetrical openings featuring cross-windows and 20th-century casements. A glazed small-pane door is positioned to the left, with 20th-century French windows to the return wall of the cross-wing. The attic floor has a garret dormer with an eight-pane casement.

The service wing has a four-bay front with three tripartite wooden ground-floor windows, each with six-pane sections, and a 20th-century lattice window to the far right. The upper floor contains two three-light mullioned windows with lattice glazing, set within large shallow gabled dormers.

The interior features a plain 19th-century entrance hall with stairwell leading off, and drawing and dining rooms flanking. A full-height dog-leg oak stair from around 1700 features elegant columnar balusters, square newels, and original treads and risers. The attic contains a contemporary two-panel fielded door that is reused and ex-situ. The dining room has medium-field mid or third-quarter 17th-century oak panelling covering two of its walls, with reused sections of earlier 17th-century small-field oak panelling on the dado of the remainder. Set into the former panelling above the modern fireplace are two narrow panels of late 16th-century Renaissance relief carving. The upper panel displays a central cartouche bearing the arms of the Salesbury family of Bachymbyd, Rug and Pool Park; the lower panel has foliate decoration with an applied early painted text band containing a moralising inscription. These sections likely came from either Bachymbyd or Pool Park, both owned by the Bagots in the 19th century, and were probably incorporated during the remodelling of the house around 1830.