Bryn-y-Mor

Bryn-y-Mor is a small country house dating from the late Georgian period. It features colour-washed roughcast or rubble stone walls, hipped slate roofs with deep bracketed eaves cornice, and three stone end stacks. The house is three-storey and U-shaped, with rear wings of uneven length and a three-window and basement west facade. The windows have cambered heads, slate sills, and mostly renewed sashes, with 6-pane windows on the upper floor and 12-pane windows elsewhere. The central entrance has a 6-pane door with a traceried overlight in a restored plain surround, accessed by a fine broad flight of six nosed slate steps.

On the south side, there is a one-window range set to the right, which lights the stair in the southeast rear wing, while the east end wall of this wing is blank. The north side is made of colour-washed rubble stone and has a two-window range, with a blank east end wall featuring an end stack and a one-window range on the south return of this wing. The window openings have been restored after being obscured by a 20th-century extension that was removed since 1986. The rear wall of the main range has a door and one window on each floor, with a pent roof obscuring short sections of the cornice, suggesting that the rear has been built out slightly.

There is a slate revetment wall by the estuary edge with a narrow slipway, and a single-storey stone privy with two rooms located north of the house, featuring a hipped renewed roof. The interior retains good late Georgian details, including panelled doors and window splays, although the ground floor cornices appear to be of a later date. An unusual feature is the treatment of the square lobbies on the two main floors, which have segmental arches on three sides and moulded wood pilasters, thickened to accommodate a wider rear wall with an extra roll-mould at the corner. The open well stair in the southeast wing has stick balusters and a ramped handrail, while there are service rooms and a very narrow service stair in the northeast rear wing. There is no obvious sign that an older house is incorporated, although the rear entrance and lobbies that provide access from the wings to the main house may be infill between earlier thicker walls.