Plas Newydd

The whole house is festooned with applied timberwork and decorative detail; the character is essentially Gothick. 2-storey, 4-window front; cement render with panelled timberwork including a band of urns at 3/4 height. Slate roof with freestone gable parapets and kneelers; stone chimney stacks, paired to left end. The 3 main bays to left have deep splayed bays to 1st floor flanking a smaller bay over the entrance; diamond leaded glazing and some stained glass. Pitched roof Gothick three arched canopies below and band of carved panels at lintel level. Two light windows with heavily embellished surrounds. Canopy to centre forms a splayed porch with seats. The right hand bay has 2-light pointed window linked by carving to the small pane Library window below and doorway besides - both have bracket pediments. Timberwork to gable ends as well; left end has a tabernacle over various carvings of religious figures; pediments to ground floor over window and dummy doorway. 2 tiny dormers to rear, central staircase window with openings to each level to left and pointed cellar doorway to right. At left end there ia a n advanced and splayed bay with Gothic windows with intersecting tracery.

Narrow entrance work with openwork carved balustrade and animal carvings to handrail. The woodwork detail is too profuse to describe here, suffice to say that it is principally to doors, doorcases, chimneypieces and cornice and much of it is Jacobean (reused). Many of the ceilings are also of ribbed plaster. The Oak Room was originally the kitchen (later drawing room) and an inscription on the fireplace records the vist of the Duke of Wellington. Gothic canopied twin seat for the Ladies. This room and the Ante Room to right have Spanish leather hanging introduced here by General Yorke. The Ante Room has a fragment of medieval glass to front window. Pointed arched doorway with coloured prismatic lantern. The library at the right end is taller; ribbed ceiling with bosses and further fragments of medieval glass (these are from Valle Crucis). The State Bedchamber (simply their guest room) has an early egg and dart cornice and stout barley twist columns to chimney piece.