Glanpaith

Glanpaith is a smaller country house built in the late Georgian style. It has a near square plan, constructed in unpainted stucco with a low-pitched pyramidal slate roof with deep eaves. Tall red brick chimney stacks rise from the end walls of the garden front and the left of the entrance front.

The entrance façade faces west and is two storeys with a three-window range. The centrepiece is a columned porch with a portico standing on two stone columns set on square plinths with moulded bases and caps, flanked by matching square pilasters. The plain entablature was partially renewed in the 1930s using concrete, with a flat leaded roof. Two stone steps lead to the porch, which has a slate step up to paired two-panel half-glazed doors with a rectangular overlight containing inset radial tracery. The ground floor has 12-pane horned sashes, while the first floor has 9-pane hornless sashes. All windows have painted slate sills and shallow reveals. The ground floor features rustication, and the first floor has quoins with deep flat eaves.

The south garden front is a two-window range with full-height projecting bays that have narrow canted sides and roll-moulded angles with moulded cornices. The first floor windows are horned timber sashes with 2-4-2 panes, while the ground floor has full-length 3-6-3-pane windows, with the centre ones being French windows. The ground floor bays sit within a painted timber veranda with a leaded hipped roof and a fretted eaves board decorated with a pattern of little arches with points between. The veranda stands on squared thin timber posts: four at the centre, a pair at each end and another pair just in from each end, with latticed timbers between posts. The ends are boarded with paired latticed posts on each side. The veranda has a slate floor and stone step.

The east side is a three-window elevation in matching materials. The end chimney from the south front sits to the left on the roof slope. There is a gabled dormer with a 4-pane sash and wavy bargeboard. To the left, ground floor openings are blank due to the chimney. The first floor has 9-pane sashes at the centre and right, matching those on the west façade. The ground floor has a 4-pane earlier 20th-century horned sash at the centre, and to the right a single opening with paired 4-pane narrow sashes. A narrow 8-pane horned sash with a higher sill has been inserted to the far right. Beneath the centre window is a cellar grille above a coal chute opening. Beneath the right windows are cellar steps with a cast iron 19th-century spearhead railing. The cellar has a cambered-headed 4-pane light and a boarded timber door with a cambered head.

The rear north elevation has a wider similar gabled dormer with paired 4-pane sashes and a chimney on the roof slope to the right.

Attached to the left of the west front is a lower two-storey service range, also in unpainted stucco. It has a slate roof hipped to the north with flat eaves. The upper storey, added in the 1930s, has 12-pane horned timber sashes, while the ground floor has corresponding blank openings. A small square red brick stack sits on the roof slope to the right of centre. The north end has rusticated rendered first floor and colourwashed rubble ground floor with a 12-pane hornless timber sash with stone voussoirs over it.

A single storey range extends east to the rear with signs of alteration. The ground floor on the north has an inserted 4-pane horned sash with brick dressings to the right and a 20th-century opening with concrete lintel further right. The roof is hipped to the east, with stonework continuous with the end of the service wing.

A narrow three-sided rear north-east court is flagged in slate with rendered elevations. On the west service range there is a 12-pane sash over a wide square 8-pane kitchen window. In the south-west angle to the main house is an added stair tower with long earlier 20th-century leaded-glazed sashes with margin lights, one on the north and one on the east, and a rear door on the east. The low north range has a 12-pane hornless sash to the left and a boarded door with a tiny 3-pane light over the window.

The interior of the main house features a hall with a small ceiling rose, bracketed cornice, timber flooring and 6-panel doors. The north-west morning room has a moulded cornice, marble fireplace and split-level panelled shutters with corresponding panels beneath the window recess. The south-west dining room has similar cornice and fireplace treatment, with French windows that have panelled shutters to the sides and panelling above. The south-east drawing room has similar panels and shutters to the French windows and a marble fireplace with fleur-de-lys motif. It features an elaborate decorative stucco cornice with acanthus and water-leaf ornament and a ceiling border of rich scroll work with rosettes.

The staircase dates from 1934 and is constructed in unpainted timber with a ramped handrail, open treads and twisted paired balusters similar to that at Bryneithyn Hall. The lower range contains kitchen, pantry and scullery, all recently refurbished, and retains service bells. The upper landing ceiling has a moulded cornice and foliate rose. Bedrooms have timber fireplaces and moulded cornices. Windows to the stair half-landing are leaded with coloured glazing and side margins. The rear wing has 4-panel doors.