Croesawdy

Croesawdy is a large, detached house built in the Domestic Revival style, dating to the late 19th century. The ground floor is constructed of red brick with sandstone dressings and a stone plinth, while the first floor and gables are timber-framed, featuring decorative bracing, some quatrefoil panels, carved bargeboards and moulded corbels supporting the overhanging gables. The roof is covered in clay tiles with scalloped bands, decorative ridge tiles and finials. The original axial stacks remain, although reduced in number. The house has casement windows, mostly six-light and containing decorative coloured glass; first-floor windows have been replaced to match the originals, retaining some original coloured glass panes.

The main entrance elevation faces New Road, and is three bays wide, with a projecting gabled bay on the left. The central entrance has stone steps with brick piers, a cornice, and a further flight of steps to the doorway, which is segmental arched, triple ordered with a stone base and hoodmould. The timber front door features a raised and fielded panel below paired glazed upper panels, cusped with margin glazing and coloured inserts, and an overlight above. A bay window is located to the right. Parapets with pierced lancet tracery are positioned above both the doorway and bay window. A return elevation to Ffordd Croesawdy features paired gabled bays and a tower attached to the right, which is square with canted corners and a tall polygonal roof with a decorative finial. Narrow windows are present at the base of the tower, echoed in the bay to the right. The elevation continues to the right with a single bay of a rear wing with similar detailing. The left elevation has a projecting central gabled bay and bay windows to the ground floor. A later single-storey extension has been added to the left, with plain brickwork extending the roofline to a two-storey addition. The rear elevation is of plain brickwork, with windows to the ground, first and attic floors. C20th century extensions to the rear are not of special interest.

The house retains its original plan form, layout, and fittings. The grand central entrance hall has moulded archways, and a staircase to the rear right features paired iron foliated balusters and a moulded timber handrail. The principal reception room on the front left features a large, elaborate fireplace surround and a deep bay window. A dining room on the rear left has a deep coffered ceiling and dado panelling. Throughout the house, original six-panel doors, fireplaces, skirtings, architraves, and cornicing survive, all of high quality and consistent with a dwelling for a wealthy industrialist in the late 19th century.