Neuadd Fawr is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 8 October 1990. House, outbuilding. 1 related planning application.

Neuadd Fawr

WRENN ID
stranded-gravel-cedar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Country
Wales
Date first listed
8 October 1990
Type
House, outbuilding
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Unpainted stucco neoclassical house of two storeys with hipped deep-eaved roofs and rendered stacks. Handsome main E front of 1-3-1 bays, the outer bays advanced with paired giant pilasters, neo-Grec moulded caps and bases, deep entablature with roof eaves replacing cornice, as originally there was a parapet with raised balustraded centrepieces to each outer bay, removed c1900. Ground floor full-length 4-12-4-pane tripartite sash with entablature under cambered arch. First floor sill-band and 12-pane sash in shouldered architrave. Centre is recessed with neo-Grec loggia of three bays carrying balcony with simple iron rail. Loggia has square piers and moulded entablature. Within are French windows in shouldered architraves with blind-boxes. Above are 12-pane sashes without surrounds. Two large stacks on main ridge. Right end wall is utilitarian, three-window. S entrance front, 2 bays with paired angle pilasters and entablature strips. 12-pane sash each floor to right. 4-12-4-pane sash with entablature under cambered arch to first floor left, over very broad elliptical-arched entry, the delicately-traceried broad fanlight with coloured glass margin mostly broken. Double panelled doors with big sidelights. Very unusual Greek Ionic porch with 4 massive paired cast-iron outer columns and full entablature. Four wreaths in frieze. To left, set back is 3-storey, 2-window plainer block with raised framing strip, plain 12-pane attic windows, 4-12-4-pane first floor windows under cambered arches, and plain 4-12-4-pane ground floor sashes. Very long cross-axial centre stack. Rear N wall is utilitarian with lean-to and gabled centre dated 1889. Service range to NW is a big utilitarian 3-storey hipped rendered block butting on to Coach House end wall. Some windows with terracotta keystones as on 1889 dated section, mainly hornless sashes, plainer still to N side whence returned into internal courtyard behind main house.

Collapsed and largely denuded of decorative features 1995.

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