Ty'n y Lon

Ty'n y Lon is a small country house built of uncoursed squared rubble stone with tooled stone quoins. The house largely dates to the 18th century, although the attached wing is more recent. The roof is slate, with a distinctive red brick apex stack of three shafts separated by narrow arches and a moulded brick cornice. Deep eaves are bracketed, with the brackets ornamented with acorn pendants.

The north-western garden front has four bays, while the south-western entrance front has two. Most windows are casements with side margins; full-height French windows occupy the ground floor, all set in shallow reveals with lightly cambered red brick heads and slate sills.

The south-western entrance front features two paired casements on the first floor, a French window on the ground floor to the left, and a large, enclosed porch to the right, reminiscent of Bryneithin in Llanfarian. The porch has a five-sided slate roof and matching eaves. Each canted side of the porch is fitted with a pointed window containing coloured marginal panes to the long, single lights. The door is within a timber doorcase with half-fluted pilasters, an overlight with coloured marginal glazing, and double, half-glazed doors featuring Gothic glazing bars and coloured glass matching the pointed lights. The north-western garden front has two large, four-light French windows on the ground floor, divided as an opening pair, with marginal glazing bars and fixed small-paned side-lights. The first floor has four paired casements, mirroring those on the entrance front.

The rear north-eastern side has a two-window range with matching windows. The south-east end incorporates a lower, two-storey range set back from the entrance front, with a rendered stack extending from the southeast end. The roof ridge is hipped down slightly at the northwest end to sit beneath the main house’s eaves. The whitewashed southeast gable end, facing the road, has a canted rear angle, and the northeast side features a four-pane sash window on the first floor, above a 20th-century lean-to garage.

The entrance porch contains a half-octagonal plate glass ceiling-light at the apex of a five-sided ribbed vault with raised roll-mould stucco ribs. Pointed heads are incorporated into the diagonal windows, and a wide, flattened open arch leads into the stair hall. Similar depressed-arched heads are found above doorways throughout the house. Most interior doors are timber, four-panelled. A fine open-well staircase features slim, turned balusters, a ramped handrail scrolled at the foot, and bracketed tread ends. The stair hall boasts a four-sided domed ceiling with a plain, moulded ceiling rose and raised roll-mould ribs extending to the floor. The sitting room, formerly a studio for de Saedeleer, retains a 1930s tiled fireplace, a flattened arched head to an alcove with shelving, a panelled door recess, a picture rail, and a plain stepped cornice. A bedroom has a deep coved ceiling with florets at the bases of the corner ribs. The kitchen features a flagged floor and a large, fitted painted pine dresser. An attached wing includes a former kitchen with a bread oven and a large range with a timber overmantel, alongside a maid's room on the upper storey. An original well-pump remains on the property.