Detached Lower N Range at Glanolmarch

This is a detached lower north range of a country house, built between 1883 and 1885, designed by George Morgan of Carmarthen for J W Stephens. The building is constructed of coursed Cilgerran stone with Bath stone dressings and has steep slate roofs, crested ridges and corniced, chamfered stone stacks. It is two storeys and an attic, with an L-shaped plan, a three-window front and a long north-west rear wing.

The front elevation features flush ashlar quoins and a raised plinth. It’s framed by two steep gables with ornate timber bargeboards, collared with angle struts above and a central turned post. Two large ridge stacks are present. The attic has a single, narrow light on each side, positioned over large ashlar mullioned canted bays with cornices, brattishing over the ground floor and a stone hipped roof. The centre of the front has a three-light mullioned window over a projected Gothic door with narrow, ogee-headed sidelights. The door has a Tudor arched head, with a brattished cornice and ashlar coping that steps back over a blank rectangular plaque.

The west side is plain, running to a slightly projected gable with ornate bargeboards and a north end stack, followed by a lower service range with an eaves-breaking dormer window to the left and a north end stack. The main part of the building has long mullioned windows, with two, one, and two-light windows above, and two, two, and two single lights below. A door with a shouldered head is set within a projecting coped ashlar surround with a gablet, above which is a single stair light. The gable has a two-light window on each floor, with a single attic light. The service range has six-pane sashes, with the side panes narrower, four above and two and one three-pane below.

The east side has a Tudor-arched opening to the ground floor, originally leading to a conservatory. There is a two-light window and a single light above, followed by a gable matching the west side, but with a ground floor three-light ashlar bay. The north return has a side-wall stack, ground floor lean-tos, and a Gothic three-light stair-light in the angle to the right. There is a six-pane sash window on each floor of the east return. The east front of the service range has two six-pane sashes above, and two broad, cambered arched openings below, with a window, door, and window. These broad openings have Cilgerran stone voussoirs and were subsequently glazed.

A single-storey range across the north end of the court has a west end stack, a door, a broad carriage entry, and a door, all with Cilgerran stone voussoirs.

Inside, a broad entrance features stained glass panels to the inner door. The staircase has carved newels, twisted balusters, and punched ornament on the string. A stained glass window is dated 1885 JWS. The front hall and main rooms have ceilings panelled in plaster between moulded timber ribs, and fireplaces have been removed.