Coedgwgan Hall

Coedgwgan Hall is a 2½-story, 3-window house dating from the 18th century, with later additions and alterations. The main structure is brick with a slate roof, featuring projecting eaves and a brick stack to the left. An external stone stack is located at the rear, with a brick shaft. The front facade features a plat band and window openings with segmental heads. A swept metal canopy supported by open cast-iron piers shelters the central entrance, which now has a replaced half-glazed door and a small-pane overlight. Twenty-four-pane sash windows, inserted in the 1990s, flank the entrance, with the sills slightly lowered at that time. The upper story has small-pane, iron-framed windows incorporating casements. The right-hand gable end is weatherboarded in the upper story and gable, with brickwork on a stone sill in the lower story, and rebuilt on the right side. It contains a segmental-headed 2-light casement window in the lower story, alongside a 2-light metal-framed casement in the upper story and a similar attic window. Connected to the right gable end is a rear outshut added in the 1990s.

The rear elevation is dominated by the external stone stack located to the left of the center. Another outshut, also dating from the 1990s, is to its left. An earlier outshut to the right is constructed of brick in two phases, with a later attic story. It features a segmental-headed entrance on its left side, with a narrower boarded door, and two segmental-headed small-pane windows further to the right; the rightmost of these was originally a doorway. Two 2-light casements are situated above. The left-hand gable end is weatherboarded, with an inserted window to the right, an inserted split boarded door to the left side within the outshut, a casement above that door, and a 2-light small-pane window offset to the left in the upper storey of the main range.

Original box-framing is visible in the gable and rear walls, but not the front. The layout, which includes a central stair hall, is thought to date from around 1800. The original hall, to the right of the entrance, contains an elliptical (but uneven) fireplace with a stone arch and a broad ovolo moulding, above which is a tablet bearing “1581 Clement P” in raised lettering and numerals. The kitchen to the left of the entrance has a timber-framed partition, a fireplace with a large timber lintel and an added bread oven, and a joist-beam ceiling with stepped stops. The spine beam of the kitchen is supported by a timber post set into the partition. The entrance hall contains spine beams and a dog-leg staircase, likely dating from around 1800 but later altered. The lower flight of the staircase has square newels with ball finials, one of which has been renewed; it lacks balusters. The upper flight features panelled wainscot. Upper-floor rooms also boast full-height panelling, some of which appears to be re-used, and fielded-panel doors. Two cross beams on brackets are found in the room above the hall, one of which has iron bolts.

The attic has a dog-leg staircase with plain newels (and no balusters) and the 3-bay roof retains original trusses, despite a raising of the eaves. Most of the trusses have had their collars removed, and two incorporate inserted framing.