Cilwendeg

Cilwendeg is a late 18th century country house, likely altered in the 1830s, and significantly modified between 1884 and 1885 by George Morgan, with a restoration in 1991. The exterior is of unpainted stucco with slate hipped valley roofs and short 20th century end stacks.

The south front features a three-storey, five-window centre with a pediment and a wood modillion eaves cornice. It has a 1-3-1-bays configuration, and is flanked by two-storey, two-window wings with parapets. A two-storey, two-window ground floor projection built between 1884 and 1885 is constructed of Bath stone. Large, matching conservatories, also from 1884 to 1885, sit on each end. A photograph taken before 1884 shows a scrolled armorial plaque in the pediment, small-paned windows, and a stucco projection with an iron balustrade, sashes, and an inset Ionic porch. Flanking the porch are Ionic colonnades in front of arched windows, with small-paned conservatories behind, featuring gabled, columned centres. The 1884-5 alterations include stucco quoin pilasters, enlarged attic windows, first-floor window surrounds with alternating stucco pediments, flat cornices on the wings, plate glass glazing, and a new ground floor projection. This projection has plate glass windows between paired pilasters, a dentil cornice, a parapet with balustraded panels, and a carved plaque at the centre. Three-bay verandahs sit on each side, incorporating four Roman Doric columns, outer piers, balustrades, and corniced French windows. The two conservatories are long, seven-bay structures with hipped-ended clerestories and iron cresting.

The north front is three-storey and three-bay with details from 1884 to 1885, including plate glass sashes. It has plain architraves to the attic windows, pediments on consoles to the first floor, and tripartite windows with centre pediments on the ground floor. A broad double door with a large overlight leads to a very large ashlar porte-cochere, featuring a modillion cornice, balustrade with a large, festooned armorial centrepiece, paired angle pilasters (rusticated on the lower halves), a broad moulded arch with a keystone, spandrel roundels, and jamb pilasters. Smaller arches flank the main arch. The wings are plain; a parapet remains on the east wing but was removed from the west wing. Upper windows have flat cornices and architraves (the cornices being lost on the west side), and one tripartite, corniced ground floor window is present. An east-end former billiard room dates from the period 1884 to 1885.

Inside, a full-width entrance hall contains two pink 1880s marble fireplaces with short Ionic pilasters on raised bases, possibly dating back to the 1830s. A narrow, ashlar dog-leg staircase with a wrought iron rail, also possibly from the 1830s, is present, along with some plaster cornices with detail that may also be from the 1830s.