Glandovan

Glandovan is a country house dating to around 1660. It is built of whitewashed roughcast, largely covered in creeper, and has a hipped slate roof with paired bracket eaves. The roof features a central valley and two large axial, three-shaft rendered stacks. The front facade is two storeys and five windows, with timber cross-windows, slate sills and some leaded top-lights. A 6-panel door, dating to the early 19th century, is set within an early 19th century timber porch supported by two Roman Doric columns, pilaster responds, and a cornice. The house is built to a regular square plan, with a central rear stair projection also hipped. A later block was added to the southwest rear angle. The east side has a two-window range to the right, incorporating a basement and two storeys, and a one-window range to the left, both with similar cross-windows. The west side features two first-floor windows to the right. The rear stair gable has one leaded cross-window to the first floor on the left, 20th-century windows on both floors to the right, and a 20th-century lean-to on the ground floor left. The added corner range has similar bracketed eaves, whitewashed rubble walls, a roof gabled to the west with a stone stack, and a hipped roof to the southeast, alongside a large earlier 19th-century 16-pane sash window on the south wall.

Two stone gatepiers dating to the early 19th century stand on the east side of the forecourt.

The house’s design reflects Renaissance principles with a square plan, possibly the earliest surviving in Dyfed. It incorporates an axial spine broad passage to the rear stairs up to the attic, a cross-axial thick chimney wall, and four rooms: a northeast dining room, a northwest drawing-room, a southeast parlour, and a southwest kitchen. The passage contains panelling introduced in the 20th century. The staircase is remarkable for its scale, though relatively simple in detail, and is an open-well design with a plain string, square newels, carved finials and pendants, and turned balusters. The front rooms and parlour have plastered and panelled ceilings, with simple mouldings framing the beams. A 19th-century marble fireplace is located in the northeast room. The kitchen retains three exposed beams and the remains of a small stair to the left of the fireplace. Three ornate, figured wood doors, originally from Surrey, were introduced in the 20th century. Two upstairs bedrooms also feature plastered and panelled ceilings, and there is some fielded panelling to the walls of a small central room.