Glanolmarch

Glanolmarch is a country house dating from 1883-5, designed by George Morgan of Carmarthen for J W Stephens. It is constructed of coursed Cilgerran stone with Bath stone dressings, and has steep slate roofs, crested ridges, and corniced chamfered stone stacks. The building is two storeys and an attic, arranged in an L-plan with a three-window front and a long north-west rear wing.

The front façade is characterised by flush ashlar quoins, a raised plinth, and is framed by two steep gables featuring ornate timber bargeboards, collared with angle struts above and a centre turned post. There are two prominent ridge stacks. The attic has small single lights on each side, above large ashlar mullioned canted bays with cornices, brattished over the ground floor and with stone-hipped roofs. The central portion has a three-light mullioned window above a projected Gothic door with narrow, ogee-headed sidelights, the door itself being Tudor arched. A brattished cornice runs over the window, topped with ashlar coping sloped back to a moulded course, stepped over a blank rectangular plaque.

The west side is plain, running back to a slightly projected gable with ornate bargeboards, a north end stack, and then a lower service range with an eaves-breaking dormer to the left and a north end stack. The main part of the house 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 set within a projecting coped ashlar surround with a gablet, is also present, along with a single stair light above. The gable has a two-light window on each floor and a single light in the attic. The service range has six-pane sashes, with side panes of narrower width, four above and two and one three-pane below.

The east side has a Tudor-arched opening on the ground floor, originally leading to a conservatory, with a two-light and a single light above. A gable mirrors the one on the west side, but features 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. The east return has six-pane sash windows on each floor. The east front of the service range has two six-pane sashes above and two broad cambered arched openings below, containing a window, door, and window. These broad openings have Cilgerran stone voussoirs and have been subsequently glazed.

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

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