Glan-Honddu

Glan-Honddu is a late Georgian country house. The exterior is painted roughcast with a hipped slate roof and two rendered chimneys at the centre. The house has two storeys and two main facades: a three-bay east entrance front and a south garden front with a central three-window canted projection and single bays at either end. A squared stone plinth runs along the base. The windows are hornless sash windows with thin glazing bars and stone sills; twelve panes to the first floor and fifteen panes to the full height on the ground floor. The south front originally had a hipped veranda, which has been replaced by a 20th-century wood pergola. The east side features a central arched doorway with a radiating-bar fanlight and double-panelled doors, set within an altered porch. The porch retains original pilaster responds and Roman Doric columns but has a 20th-century entablature and flat top. The west side is irregular, with four bays, including a long twelve-pane sash window on the first floor (the right-hand one being dummy) and two shorter windows in the centre. The ground floor on the right has a long fifteen-pane sash window, as on the south front. The left side has a group of three windows, with a twelve-pane sash between two nine-pane sashes; a conservatory is said to have previously occupied this area. A lower, two-storey, two-bay rear wing extends to the northwest, with a hipped roof to the north and a stack at the north end.

Inside, a spine hall runs from the front door, with a stair hall in the centre of the house and three principal rooms to the south. The kitchen is located at the northwest. The rooms feature six-panel doors in moulded surrounds with square rosettes, and panelled shutters. The inner half-glazed front door has fluted pilasters inside. A purple marble chimneypiece is on the north wall, with roundels at the top angles. A panelled elliptical hall arch stands on fluted pilasters. The cantilevered staircase on the north wall has a curved design with scrolled tread ends, thin turned balusters and a continuous curving rail; an arched niche is incorporated into the stair, with a glazed round lantern above. A similar balustrade is on the landing. The southeast study has a plain cornice and a white marble fireplace with roundels in the upper angles. The south-facing room has a canted bay window to the garden, a plaster moulded ceiling with a border and central acanthus oval, slightly domed with swirled pendant leaves, and a fireplace with anthemion decoration. The southwest room has remarkable plasterwork to the ceiling border, depicting naturalistic undercut vine leaves and grapes, with an acanthus rose at the centre, and a fossil-marble fireplace with roundels at the upper angles.