Brithdir Hall

Brithdir Hall is a house, dating from the later 18th century, with subsequent alterations. The main range is faced with a lined-out render and has a shallow pitched slate roof, with deep overhanging eaves supported by moulded brackets. A brick end wall and axial stacks are present. The building is two storeys high, with a five-window front, and a central, storeyed porch. The porch has a mainly glazed lower storey, featuring a shallow arch to the entrance filled with three subsidiary arches forming a glazed doorway and side lights, incorporating Greek key motifs on the pilasters. Similar arches are above the windows in each return. Above the entrance door is a two-light window with lattice glazing and a double reeded architrave, with console brackets and an entablature hood. The porch is topped with a pediment supported by a heavy cornice with moulded brackets that continue the main eaves line, and includes scalloped barge boards. Late 19th-century four-pane sash windows flank the porch to the ground floor, with smaller eight-pane sashes above (with one metal window inserted to the first floor, around 1950). A parallel rear range features mullioned and transomed iron-framed windows with small panes on each floor, and two side wall stacks.

The main range is linked by a brick wall with flat stone copings to a stable range (to the right) and a former laundry (to the left). Both of these are brick buildings with outward-facing gable ends, blind except for a lunette at the apex. Doorways with flanking windows are contained within lean-to extensions facing the main house.

Inside, the entrance and stair hall are centrally located, with the principal rooms opening off it to either side, and service rooms in the parallel rear range. The entrance hall features a heavy plaster cornice and heavy reeding to the doorcases, with rosettes at the angles. A steep, curved staircase has a swept rail and moulded tread ends. The dining room has a plain marble fireplace and a Grecian key motif to the plaster cornice; the drawing room also features a plain marble fireplace and a deep plaster cornice with anthemia and trailed wheatears. The roof space reveals three distinct phases of building and remodelling, visible in the trusses. Two original trusses remain, displaying king and queen posts with raking struts above the collar; an arched doorway has been cut through the western truss. Decorative framing is visible in the west gable, comprising cruciform timbers with chevron bracing.