Castell Madoc

Castell Madoc is a large classical mansion rendered in painted roughcast and stucco, with a slate hipped roof and roughcast corniced chimney stacks. It rises three storeys and is arranged in an L-plan, with a long eight-bay south front, a five-bay west side, and a two-bay east end entrance front.

The south front is dominated by a substantial mid-19th-century pedimented projection inserted in the seventh bay, with an additional bay beyond. The top floor contains square windows, six of 6-pane design to the left of the projection and one 4-pane to the right. The first floor has plain 4-pane sashes, with only the rightmost window featuring a moulded 19th-century architrave. The ground floor displays long 19th-century French windows across six bays to the left, and a 4-pane sash in a moulded architrave to the right of the projection. Throughout the south front there is a stone plinth and stone sills. The pedimented projection is as broad as two window bays and features a deep-eaved pediment with a roundel window. Its first floor contains a long alternating quoins design with a 4-pane sash in a shouldered pedimented architrave and sill band. The ground floor has chanelled stonework with radiating voussoirs to a large moulded arched French window with a radiating-bar fanlight. A massive square ridge stack stands two bays from the left end, with a smaller stack positioned just forward of the ridge to the left of the pedimented projection.

The west side comprises five bays in similar style with a hipped roof and corniced ridge stack. A stone plinth and stone sills run throughout. Six-pane hopper upper windows are present, with the fourth bay left blank. The first floor has 4-pane sashes, the centre one cambered-headed with a curved triangular stone plaque dated 1588 inscribed "WPM ty nuedd TP 1588"; the fourth window here is also blank. The ground floor contains four long casement-pair windows, with the second not aligned with the windows above, and a French window in the fifth bay. The north gable end is hipped and features a massive roughcast external chimneybreast with a tall corniced shaft that breaks the eaves. The roof has shallower eaves to the left of this chimney. Two broad raised bands flank each side of the chimneybreast.

A single-storey 19th-century addition extends to the north with a tall thin brick north stack. A parallel range at the rear of the main range to the left has a roof hipped to the east and a roughcast ridge stack. The east end of this addition features an arched stair window in a brick surround.

The east entrance front, dating from circa 1880, comprises two bays beneath a hipped roof. Two attic windows sit above two plate glass first floor sash windows in architraves. A large pedimented porch dominates this elevation, containing a plate glass sash in an architrave to the right. The porch has paired angle pilasters and a moulded-arched doorway with pilasters paired in depth. A hardwood fanlight with radiating bars sits above paired half-glazed hardwood doors.

Interior

The porch with its doors opens into a late-19th-century hall with a panelled dado and panelled ceiling. Two arches punctuate the west wall, one blank and one opening into the main axial hall, which itself has two similar arches on the north leading to the late-19th-century open well stairs. The stairs feature a moulded string, pine balustrades, and turned newels with ball finials. The south rooms display mid to late-19th-century detailing. A massive chimney breast divides the southwest room from the dining room to the east. The southwest room contains an early-20th-century chimneypiece, mid to late-19th-century moulded cornice, and 19th-century bookshelves. The dining room features a 19th-century cornice and a marble chimneypiece with roundels in the top corners. The centre ground floor room on the west contains some 18th-century fielded panels in the window reveals. Beneath this room is a 17th-century or earlier stone-vaulted wine cellar with a 17th-century door. A service stair stands at the rear east of the west range.

The first floor landing has three arches, with a glazed 19th-century lantern over the lobby between the main stair and the west service stair. A length of 17th-century balustrading runs along a straight flight of service stairs parallel to a thick wall that may represent the original back wall of the west range. This service stair features a closed string, turned thick balusters, and a square newel with an Ionic cap beneath a Jacobean-style finial. The first floor west room contains a Victorian neo-Tudor chimneypiece but retains 18th-century fielded panelled window reveals.