Llanerchydol Hall

Llanerchydol Hall is a Grade II* listed picturesque early Gothic Revival style house with irregular massing and composition. The principal fronts are faced in ashlar with lined-out render to secondary elevations; the rear and south-west wing are brick. The roofs are slate, recessed behind parapets.

The house comprises an entrance range facing north-east, with a three-storey tower at its south-east angle and a recessed rear range linking to a smaller tower advanced to the south-west. A conservatory runs between these two towers on the garden front. To the south-west is a former service wing with a small service yard occupying the angle between this wing and the south-west tower.

The entrance front features the three-storey tower advanced to the left, with an embattled porch at its angle with the main range. The porch has a four-centred chamfered outer arch and a similar arched inner doorway with a traceried panelled and part-glazed door. To the right of the porch are 2x2-light wood mullioned and transomed windows with traceried arched lights, with similar mullioned windows above, all bearing drop-ended hood moulds. A single-storey block to the right appears to be a later addition, possibly a billiard room dating from around 1820 as an addition to the late 18th-century core of the building. It links the main block to an 1820 gate into the stable yard and has a three-light mullioned and transomed window of similar design. The tower to the left of the entrance has octagonal pilasters terminating as turrets at its outer angles, balanced by a small octagonal turret corbelled from the entrance front inner angle. It features an embattled parapet with triple octagonal traceried chimneys.

On the garden front, the tower displays 3x2-light mullioned windows with arched traceried lights to the first and second floors. The ground floor has transomed windows of two and three lights, with armorial stained glass in the upper panes. In front of the west wing stands a three-bay conservatory with traceried arched lights and three-light mullioned and transomed windows. A two-storey tower to the left has an oriel window on a moulded corbel to the first floor, a moulded string course, and an embattled parapet. A turret at its right-hand angle contains a steeply arched window in its upper stage. The line of this tower continues to the left as a brick wall screening the service courtyard in front of the service wing, which has small-paned two-light windows and two corbelled-out dormer gables. The rear north-west elevation is brick, with nine-pane sash windows in chamfered reveals and a dormer gable above tripartite sash windows to the left of the doorway. A projecting gabled block housing the kitchen, with a tripartite sash window on each floor, is linked to the north-west gable of the main range by a short wing.

The house has been bisected across the rear of the main range to form two dwellings but otherwise retains most of the original layout in its principal areas. The main entrance hall is articulated by a cusped arch sprung from foliate corbels, with opaque glass bearing the Pugh family crest over the doorway. A cantilevered staircase rises the full height of the house with traceried cast-iron balusters. An armorial stained glass window lights the stairs from the south. Double doors to the drawing room in the base of the main tower are articulated by a central dividing arch with a shallow arch, traceried panelled reveals, and octagonal pilasters with capitals. The marble fireplace and overmantle are enriched with traceried panelwork and oak-leaf scroll-work matching the detail in the internal joinery and plasterwork throughout the house. The ceiling is ribbed and panelled with an oak-leaf cornice. The dining room has a similar ribbed panelled ceiling and cornice, with wallpaper in imitation of embossed leather above a lincrusta dado. Other rooms retain original fireplaces and some plasterwork. The kitchen in the rear wing retains a fine Coalbrookdale Company Range.