Nantcaerio

Nantcaerio is a gentry house dating from the 18th century, exhibiting Italianate style details. The exterior is finished in unpainted stucco, topped by a slate hipped roof with deep eaves supported by shaped brackets arranged in pairs and threes. A rendered stack rises from the ridge on the left side. The south front has five bays, arranged as two bays, a recessed central bay, and then two bays, the outer sections featuring quoins. The first floor incorporates square windows with six panes, set within moulded surrounds, while the ground floor has French windows with top lights, also in moulded surrounds with pediments resting on console brackets. The east end has a matching window on each floor, along with angle quoins. A rear lean-to extension features a door recessed within a cambered-headed entry; double half-glazed doors are located within. A raised band encircles the building, and a small embossed plaque is positioned on the first floor. A substantial pier with a flat cap separates the lean-to from a single-bay entry leading to a rear yard, which has a moulded surround to a cambered-headed entry and a bell-opening above, set beneath a curved, shouldered gable. Small cement niches flank the bell, with simple finials at the sides and apex of the gable.

Attached at a right angle is a former stable, a five-bay lofted structure with a slightly recessed centre. It has four shuttered windows surmounted by simple pediments, and a central door with a plain cornice on consoles. The upper floor is distinguished by a coped parapet, a central rectangular opening, and long recessed panels on either side. A monopitch slate roof sits behind the stable, alongside a rubble stone east end wall.

The west side of the main building is longer than the east, extending over two window bays; the windows to the right are consistent with those on the east side, while those to the left are simpler, featuring a square window above and a 12-pane sash below. A rendered ridge stack is present. To the left is a later 19th-century addition, almost a separate house, mirroring the eaves brackets and hipped roofs of the original structure, with a rendered stack rising from the ridge. This addition has a two-storey west front, displaying a 1-3-1-bay arrangement, with a full-height canted bay in the centre, plain four-pane sashes, and a glazed door at ground level. A set-back service section is located to the left, sharing similar eaves and four-pane sashes. The upper floors feature windows that progressively increase in size towards the left, and two smaller windows above a narrow sash and overlight door. The north end has a rubble stone wall and brick framed ground floor windows. A long east rear wall, spanning six bays, has flat eaves and brick framed four-pane sash windows, with a single small-paned stair light to the left. The stuccoed north side of the main range, facing the rear court, showcases three six-pane sashes above a single 12-pane sash, the lower windows being misaligned.

The front rooms were not accessible for inspection. The interior has a spine corridor leading to a later 19th-century Gothic staircase, open well, constructed from pitch pine. Four-panel doors are present throughout.