Llwynmadoc

Llwynmadoc

Large country house, predominantly Victorian in date but incorporating elements from the 18th century. The building is constructed of rubble stone, with 2 storeys and an attic, topped by a slate mansard roof with billet eaves and brick chimney stacks. A dated tablet '1747 ET' is set into the wall below the eaves at the left angle.

The main front faces south and comprises 9 bays. At its left end stands a 19th-century full-height canted bay window, followed by 3 narrow bays with hornless sashes and a central door with glazing over 2 low panels, which was possibly the main entrance before the house was extended around 1851. A wide gable with 2 attic sashes flanking a 20th-century lunette window surmounts a right-hand sash and another 19th-century 2-storey canted bay window. The 1851 extension comprises 4 narrow bays with hornless sashes and stone segmental heads, with a wide bay window spanning the 2 central bays of the lower storey. The right gable end has an external chimney stack, with sash windows to its left in both storeys and an attic dormer. A timber-framed open porch with a plain round-headed doorway has been added on the right side, leading to the main entrance.

The rear elevation displays considerable complexity. From the left end: a wide bow window with small sash above, a tall stair light with sash window, then 2 sashes in the lower storey and a replaced upper-storey window. Three dormers project above the rear wall, the left-hand one being blank and slate-hung. The service rooms, which form part of the 1851 extension, are stepped out to the rear. A single dormer rises above the side wall. The angle is chamfered in the lower storey to the right. The rear wall of the service rooms features a central gabled porch with segmental-headed sash windows and a dormer to the right, 2 small lower-storey sashes to the left, and a single narrow bay set back further right with an upper-storey sash window and dormer.

The left end wall of the main house once bore a large conservatory added by 1888, now demolished. It retains an external stack with flanking dormers, a slate-hung upper storey, and a lower-right sash window. A lean-to is attached to the lower storey. Set back from the main angle is an attached stone wall enclosing a courtyard. A short projecting link added in the 20th century connects the main house to a 3-storey service wing, formerly freestanding and adapted from an 18th-century farmstead. This wing faces the enclosed courtyard. Its lower storey has a boarded door and overlight centre-right, with a sash window to its left and a tripartite sash to its right, beneath a lean-to boarded door under a canopy. The middle-storey sash windows sit under segmental brick heads; the upper storey has similar windows under gablets, with the outer windows round-headed. The rear of this service wing, built against a steep bank, is only 2 storeys tall, with upper-storey sash windows to the centre and left, a low tripartite window at the left end, and a segmental-headed half-glazed doorway to the centre.

An L-shaped former coach house and stable block, composed of east and south wings, stands on the left side of the service wing. The east wing, facing the courtyard west of the house, contains (from the upper right end) 2 boarded doors under wooden lintels, a round-headed opening to a through passage, a fixed window, a segmental-headed doorway, a fixed light under a stone segmental head, and a round-headed doorway with panelled door and cast iron fanlight. The gable end of the east wing has a basement stable with a segmental-headed boarded door on its left side and a narrow ventilation strip to the right; above are fixed lights under stone segmental heads. The south wing is rebuilt in brick over a rubble stone base and encloses another courtyard to its north, with a short low gabled wing on the west side, which had been damaged by fire at the time of recording.

The interior is accessed through the main entrance via a corridor that runs the full length of the main house and contains the main stair. The stair has a quarter turn below the landing, moulded tread ends, turned balusters, and a scrolled newel. The main rooms on the left of the corridor, proceeding from the entrance, comprise a smoking room, a library with fluted pilasters flanking bookcases and a doorway, a drawing room (now converted to a kitchen), and a dining room. The dining room features a large fireplace with moulded stone surround and walls of wood panelling with husk border decoration.