Llwynderw Hall

Llwynderw Hall is an early 18th-century country house, with significant alterations and additions dating to around 1830. Documentary evidence traces the house’s history back to the early 18th century, but the visible building largely represents new construction alongside the remodeling of an earlier property.

The house is composed of three distinct sections. The earliest part is the advanced gabled range in the center, built of whitewashed random rubble. To the west is a lower bay rendered on the front elevation, brick in English garden wall bond to the west, and rubble to the south. A recessed eastern range, appearing entirely from around 1830, is symmetrically designed with a hipped roof and an axial stack. Slate roofs are found throughout, with plain overhanging eaves, likely dating to around 1830, and gable and axial stacks.

The main entrance is situated in the angle between the western bay and the central gabled range. It features a reeded architrave with rosettes at the angles, a partly glazed door set within a trellis-work veranda of three arched bays. Above the doorway is a six-pane sash window, and blind windows on each floor to its left. The advanced range to the right has a tripartite sash window on the ground floor and a 12-pane sash above, with a cambered brick head. Small-paned iron casement windows are set through the overhanging eaves above these windows. The lower range to the west has an inserted window on the ground floor and a 16-pane sash window above.

The return elevation to the east features a central arched blind window, flanked by sash windows (12-pane to the ground floor, 6-pane above). The south elevation is similar to the north, with two 12-pane sash windows on each floor in the eastern bay, including floor-height windows on the ground floor. A 12-pane sash window is found on each floor in the gabled range, with small-paned iron casement windows cutting through the eaves above. The left-hand (western) bay has a 16-pane sash window to the first floor.

The interior details, consistent with the circa 1830 date, include plaster cornices, reeded doorcases, and a steep curved staircase.

Llwynderw Hall is a fine early 19th-century country house that retains a consistent character in its internal and external detailing, and is of additional interest because of its earlier origins.

Reference: D.W.Smith, 'Lwynderw Hall and its Surroundings', Montgomeryshire Collections, Vol.74, 1986, pp.9-31.