Maenol

Maenol is a house built in the Tudor Gothic style, dating from the 18th century. The house is stone built with rendered elevations, a plinth, and slate roofs with wide eaves. Brick chimney stacks feature dentil cornices and tall, octagonal flues that have been rendered on the left side. Most windows are paired sash windows with marginal glazing bars and Tudor hoodmoulds. The main, northeast-facing front is stepped and gabled, with three bays recessed to the centre. These bays have decorative bargeboards, variously ornamented, and pendants (finials are missing from some). A golden freestone porch is centrally located, with a four-centred arch with an ogee head beneath a pitched parapet and crocketed finials (two of which are missing). A bay window to the right also has crenellated parapet with crocketed finials. The porch features a Gothic-panelled entrance with double doors and a Y-tracery fanlight over the main staircase.

The right-hand side of the house has a scribed rendered finish and incorporates a three-window elevation, including an advanced and gabled bay to the right with similar bargeboards. The rear elevation has a part-roughcast finish, with 2, 1, 2, and 1 windows respectively, also including advanced, gabled bays and ornamental bargeboards. The left-hand part of the rear elevation is taller, and modern windows have been inserted in the right-hand part; one window has been blocked. A lean-to conservatory with coloured glass is located on the left, while a similar lean-to has been removed from the right-hand end. The two-window southeast-facing end, looking onto the stable yard, includes one blocked window and has an attached, lower, gable-ended range that steps forward to the left – likely originally servants’ accommodation. This aligns with a lower right-hand gable at the rear. This gable end retains a finial and a blocked lancet window. The left-hand side of this section has a tall, paired sash window, similar to those elsewhere, serving the back staircase, and a broad brick chimney breast.

A low outbuilding range projects to the left, constructed with brick and a slate roof. The left part of this range is built in the Cardiganshire 'tor brat' manner.

Inside, the Gothic style is continued. Half-glazed, pointed inner doors with a stained glass fanlight open into a hall. Six-panel (subdivided) doors lead to the main rooms, which feature marble chimney pieces. An open-well staircase with turned newel caps and decorated tread ends rises to a first-floor landing, where a fine triple-arched screen contains stained glass in the spandrels.