Tanybwlch

Tanybwlch is an early 19th century country house that was extensively remodelled and extended in the 1890s, based on designs by Arthur Flower. The house is constructed of rock-faced dark grey local stone with moulded yellow brick surrounds to the windows, and has slate hipped eaved roofs.

The northeast garden front features a full-height canted bay in the centre, with three 12-pane sash windows on the upper floor and three 15-pane sashes on the ground floor. The canted bay has a hipped eaved roof that rises higher than the one-bay sections either side. These sections each have a single 15-pane sash window on the ground floor. The southeast entrance front has hipped one-window ranges flanking a slightly higher castellated centre, which may have filled an original recess. The castellated parapet is canted back. The centre has a large first-floor plate-glass sash window within a yellow brick surround, along with a 20th-century institutional entrance with sidelights. A bay to the right has a 15-pane sash window, mirroring the garden front. A bay to the left features a circa 1890 French window in a similar surround and a plate-glass sash above the eaves. The centre of the front has two large late 19th-century blue Ruabon brick corniced stacks, set back, behind which is the original early 19th century octagonal glazed lantern.

To the left of the main house is a taller, plain late 19th-century block, two storeys high, with a four-window range. It has plate glass sashes in unmoulded yellow brick surrounds and a hipped roof supported by brackets. The northwest elevation has, towards the northeast, a large sash window in the end wall of the garden front, followed by three windows on each floor. A large late 19th-century extension of six windows extends to the right. Stacks are constructed from blue Ruabon brick.

The early 19th century portions of the house retain remarkable Greek Revival interiors, including the staircase hall and stair, cornices, moulded ceiling decoration, doorcases, doors and window architraves. Fireplaces have been removed. The entrance hall has a stone flagged floor. The staircase hall features a pair of Greek Doric columns, a stone cantilevered stair with metal balusters, and is top-lit with a glazed octagonal lantern. The ceiling is decorated with an elaborate ram's-skull-and-grapes motif. The drawing room, with a canted end, has a flat ceiling with elaborate mouldings to the cornices and Grecian window and door architraves. An archway leads to the music room. A north room has a pavilion ceiling and simpler Grecian mouldings to the cornices, with rope-mouldings to the window and door architraves. A central bedroom in the canted bay has cornices, a doorcase and window architraves. Front bedrooms are of a simpler style with early 19th century detailing. A barrel vaulted rear corridor is top-lit. The rear of the house is largely late 19th century in appearance.