Croesawdy

Large, detached house in Domestic Revival style. Red brick to ground floor with sandstone dressings and stone plinth. Stone string course. Timber framing to the first floor and gables, with decorative bracing and some quatrefoil panels. Carved bargeboards, moulded corbels to the overhanging gables. Clay tiled roof with scalloped bands, decorative ridge tiles and finials. Axial stacks (reduced). Casement windows, largely 6-light with a variety of decorative coloured glass, windows to the first floor replaced to match the existing and retained original coloured glass panes. Main entrance elevation to New Road, 3 bay with projecting gabled bay to left. Central entrance up stone steps with brick with stone piers and cornice, and a further flight of steps up to doorway to main entrance. Segmental arched doorway, triple ordered with stone base and hoodmould. Timber door with raised and fielded panel below and paired glazed upper panels, cusped with margin glazing and coloured inserts; overlight above. Bay window to right. Parapets above both doorway and bay window with pierced lancet tracery. Return elevation to Ffordd Croesawdy has paired gabled bays with tower attached to right, square with canted corners and tall polygonal roof with decorative finial. Narrow windows at its base, repeated in bay to right. Elevation continues to right with single bay of rear wing with similar detail. Left elevation with projecting central gabled bay. Bay windows to ground floor. Later single storey extension added to left. Plain brick above with continuation of roofline to 2-storey extension. Plain brick elevation to rear, windows to ground and first floor and attic. C20 extensions to rear are not of special interest.

Retains plan form, layout and fittings. Grand central entrance hall with moulded archways. Stair to rear right with paired iron foliated balusters and moulded timber handrail. Principal reception room to front left with a large elaborate fireplace surround and deep bay window. There is a dining room rear left with a deep coffered ceiling and dado panelling. Throughout original doors (mainly 6-panel), fireplaces, skirtings, architraves and cornicing survive. All of these elements are of obvious high quality and standard and consistent with what would be expected for the home of a wealthy industrialist in the late C19.