Blaenpant

Blaenpant is a house dating back to approximately 1833, with later additions and alterations. It is constructed of rubble stone with dressings in cut Cilgerran stone, and has graded slate roofs. The house originally had end and centre stacks, with brick to the southwest and cut stone to the centre and northeast.

The main front has two storeys and an attic, and originally featured a six-window range with a broad pediment over the centre four bays. A timber bracket cornice survives on the pediment, although it has been replaced at a shallower depth under the eaves and across the pediment base. A large horseshoe window is set within the pediment, featuring tripartite sashes. The upper windows are 12-pane sashes, while the ground floor originally had 12-pane sashes, now replaced with French windows with top-lights, all with cut stone voussoirs. A set of four stone steps leads up to each French window. The northeast end wall is blank and includes a basement door.

The rear of the house has been significantly modified. A double-pile, three-storey wing was demolished in the 1980s, but a slate-hung gable and chimney mark the line of the original roof. This portion was later reduced to a 20th-century flat roof with a cast-cement balustrade, covering a circa 1833 entrance. A large brick-arched doorway features a large door with sidelights, console brackets, a fanlight and a glazed outer arch, all with radiating bars. A slightly larger remnant of the rear wing remains, with a ridge stack. On each side of this remnant are large arched dormers dating back to circa 1833, featuring radiating bars and lighting a stairwell. A lower 20th-century flat roof and balustrade are located to the north.

The southwest end of the main range is windowless, and a circa 1850-60 addition constructed of cut Cilgerran stone is set in the northwest angle. This addition is two storeys high with a three-sided southwest front, featuring three 12-pane sashes on the first floor, three French windows on the ground floor, and a painted cornice and parapet. There is a side-wall stone stack.

The southwest dining room has fielded panelling in large panels, with fluted Ionic pilasters, a dado rail, and raised pedestals under the pilasters, along with a deep dentil cornice. The panelling is incomplete on the front wall. The end wall has an early 20th-century fireplace and overmantel, framed by the original pilasters and cornice, which is further enriched with moulded detail and a thick leaf scroll in the frieze. Panelled shutters are present. A two-window centre room has similar panelling, a dado rail, and fluted pilasters, but the original Corinthian capitals are mostly lost, except for one in the corner. There is also a dentil cornice. The northeast entrance hall has a moulded cornice and two tall arched entries dating back to circa 1833, leading to a full-height stair-hall with an additional hall behind. The present staircase is from the 1980s, constructed from early 20th-century elements. The staircase rises from the rear hall, passing through an arch into the main stair-hall, and then through another arch to the first floor. The first floor has two main rooms at each end and two smaller rooms between, backed by a passage with some fielded panelling and moulded cornices. There are fielded panelling and shutters dating back to circa 1833, as well as moulded cornices. The stairhall features an intricately carved wood band at first floor level and plaster moulding at attic level. The barrel-vaulted ceiling in the stairhall dates back to circa 1833, with an ornate acanthus rose and large glazed fanlights at each end. The attic contains large, encased roof trusses with curved feet.