Cae'r Lan Castle

House former inn, painted stucco with slate roofs overhanging at gables, and brick end stacks. Two storeys and attic. N front has flat eaves with paired minimal brackets. Four widely-spaced bays with 3 hornless 12-pane sash windows and thin stone sills: 2-window range to left of door and one-window range to right. Door is later C19 6-panel with shallow triangular head in painted timber surround with cornice raised as pediment in centre, on big console brackets. Fine later C19 cast-iron porch of unusual size and delicacy, the flat top above height of first floor sills. Two thin cast-iron Gothic columns with ornate capitals, quatrefoil shafts with bosses at mid-height and bulbous bases on octagonal plinths carry pierced cast-iron spandrel brackets making arches to front and each side. Spandrels have five-petal flower and scroll motifs. Stone steps up to door. Two C19 corbels above porch, perhaps for former inn sign. Left end wall has later C19 4-pane sash to attic and to first floor left, with tooled stone sills. Small cellar vent. Right end has similar attic window, but earlier 12-pane ground floor sash. Two parallel rear wings, that to roadside (E) late C19 in detail, 3-window with 4-pane sashes above and tripartite 2-4-2-pane sash each side of big timber doorcase to double panelled doors with 3-pane overlight. Doorcase has plinth, fluted pilaster strips, big console brackets and heavy modillion cornice. W rear range, to canal, is perhaps original or earlier C19. Set back, with 3 big 16-pane hornless sashes to first floor, offset to left, over ground floor later C19 pair of sashes to left, with cambered head, 2 doors to centre, one blocked, and later C19 small 4-pane sash right.

Interior said to have panelled doors, steep centre stairs, and stone barrel-vaulted cellars. Late C18 to early C19 fielded panelled shutters to ground floor left window.