Ty Mawr

Ty Mawr is a Grade II listed building of rubble construction, formerly plastered, with hipped slate roofs including a valley to the west of the rear block. The main front range is two storeys with three bays, the central bay projecting forward with a shallow pedimental gable and stone pedimental returns. Wide eaves are supported by paired large brackets on the main elevations and single brackets to the rear. Four chimney stacks of rubble or rendered construction serve the building, with one positioned to the left of the front range behind the ridge, one at the valley of the rear block, and two end stacks serving the rear.

The front elevation displays 20-pane hornless sash windows with marginal vertical glazing to the ground floor, set beneath cambered brick heads. The first floor has similarly glazed 5/10 windows to left and right with lintels; these appear to be later insertions. The upper central window is particularly notable: it has a round arched brick head containing a tripartite sash window glazed 4:12:4 with a blind fanlight featuring radiating glazing bars. The clumsiness of its scale and detail suggests this window represents a later reworking. Slate sills throughout. A later 19th-century rendered gabled porch with panelled sides has been added to the front, the side panels containing round arched windows. Paired half-glazed doors with plain overlights provide access, with paired half-glazed inner doors featuring marginal glazing and matching overlights.

The west elevation includes a projecting rear block to the right. The west end of the front range has windows to each floor matching those on the front elevation, plus a small basement window. The north elevation of the rear block displays wide 4-pane sashes (two to first floor, one below), whilst the west end of this block has tripartite 2:4:2 sashes to basement and ground floor with a 4-pane sash above, and small 12-pane sashes at each level to the right with red brick surrounds.

The east elevation repeats the window pattern of the main front. Two tripartite sashes (12:16:12) with marginal vertical glazing and cambered brick heads are set to the ground floor, with three small 20th-century basement windows inserted. Slate sills are provided. A straight joint towards the unfenestrated left end indicates later work to the rear. The rear elevation rises to three full storeys across a six-bay width, featuring 12-pane tall sash windows with brick surrounds and slate sills to the upper floors. Basement windows have 20th-century glazing with brick surrounds. A first-floor entry door to the third bay from the left, together with the window to its right, is now covered by a 20th-century lean-to conservatory raised on a bridge oversailing the driveway. 20th-century steps provide access.

An L-plan agricultural range of later construction is attached to the west. Its south front has a boarded door to the right and paired wide boarded doors to the left with a wooden lintel. A rubble lean-to occupies the inner angle. The east elevation displays paired high barn doors with cambered stone voussoired heads and paired boarded doors; a 20th-century window to the ground floor right features a stone voussoired head, with a boarded door above it to the left rising behind the eaves. Slate sills are present. The north elevation contains two blocked elliptically headed cart entries with stone voussoirs.

Interior features include much late 19th-century detailing such as fireplaces and plaster cornices. However, the front left room retains an early 19th-century panelled dado with dentilled cornice. A mid to late 19th-century cantilevered staircase occupies a large square well, featuring an open string, turned balusters and handrail with scrollwork terminating to grouped balusters at ground floor level. A rear single-flight staircase with stick balusters is also present. The front hall features 4-panel doors and painted embossed leather over-doors.