Glyn Padarn

Glyn Padarn is a Victorian Gothic house built in snecked brown rubble stone with tooled grey quoins and tooled pale pink stone dressings. The building stands two storeys tall beneath steep slate roofs with terracotta ridge tiles, finished with gables containing open timber work in the apex.

A distinctive slate-roofed veranda wraps around the west and south fronts and the east end, supported on iron lattice work with quatrefoil spandrels and paved with red and black tile. The house sits on a raised plinth with ashlar window surrounds featuring stopped chamfers throughout.

The west front is dominated by a projecting gable to the left. At ground floor level, a pair of segmental-pointed windows with hoodmoulds extends out to each side. The first floor contains a triangular oriel with a slate roof and moulded ashlar base. An ashlar sill course with zig-zag moulding runs across the west and south fronts.

The range to the right has a short ridge stack with chamfered shoulders to the left and two first-floor four-pane sashes in square-headed chamfered surrounds. At ground floor, a door to the left and a canted ashlar bay to the right sit within the veranda, which extends around the bay with a canted hipped roof, hipped at the south-west angle. The door features a chamfered and stopped segmental-pointed surround with double half-glazed doors and an overlight. The bay contains long main lights, double to the front, and top lights.

The south gable end has a ground floor canted ashlar bay in the veranda and a first floor narrower timber canted bay with slate-hanging below and a hipped slate roof. A canted light occupies the first floor corner with a small gable and ashlar moulded base, positioned between the projecting south gable and the main south range. The south range contains ridge and east end stacks similar to those on the west range. At ground floor sits a large triple-mullioned window, with a first floor canted oriel rising from the veranda, featuring a slate-hung apron, four-pane sashes, and a canted hipped roof with eaves at main eaves level.

The east end has a ground floor French window with a segmental-pointed overlight in the veranda and a small canted ground floor window in the angle. A lower hipped roof covers the angle, with a large side-wall east stack.

The service wing to the south features an eaves-breaking dormer gable with apex timbers and a wall-face stack to the right, with a 20th-century door and window below.

The north range has windows positioned to the left, including a large three-light stone-mullioned stair-light with marginal glazing bars and top lights. A segmental-pointed door sits below. Two bays to the left include the first with a bargeboarded dormer and first floor servants' stair light of two four-pane sashes separated by a transom, and a four-pane sash to ground floor. The left bay contains four-pane sashes to each floor. Relieving arches top the ground floor windows. A hipped north-east corner roof contains an east end stack. A lower service wing to the left has two eaves-breaking dormers, one with a single sash and the other with a pair. A segmental-pointed triple window occupies the ground floor right, with a door and narrow sash to the left. The east gable contains similar apex timbers above a timber square oriel and a ground floor sash with a relieving arch.

Interior alterations have resulted in the loss of fireplaces throughout. The entrance hall contains unusual eight-panel doors in doorcases with notched work in zig-zag patterns, roll-moulds, and roundels, with crosses in the upper corners. Deep skirting boards are present. A segmental-pointed hall arch features two Gothic angle shafts with carved floral capitals and shaft rings. The open-well Gothic stair has closed strings with trefoil roundels, turned balusters, and large turned newels with square blocks, octagonal finials, and pendants. Three flights lead up to a landing, where another similar segmental-pointed arch appears.