Plas Glansevin

Plas Glansevin is a three-storey country house of approximately 1800-20, rendered with roughcast and slate roofs with rendered chimney stacks. The front elevation spans seven windows arranged 2-3-2, with the centre section slightly projected and pedimented, featuring a shield plaque bearing the Lloyd crest. The eaves are finished with painted timber modillion cornices.

The principal entrance is at the centre of the front, with two smaller 12-pane sashes flanking half-glazed double doors set within a painted ashlar Roman Doric porch. The porch comprises four columns with two pilaster responds, a flat entablature, and dentilled cornice. The inner door is panelled with part-glazed double doors.

The main front windows are sash types: 9-pane to the upper floor and 12-pane to ground and first floors. The end walls each have one similar window per floor, positioned towards the rear. The east end also has an additional ground floor sash to the right.

A two-storey southwest rear wing is attached to the main range, double-fronted with 12-pane sashes except on the ground floor left, which has two twentieth-century small windows. The east end wall contains two ground floor sashes and a door. An eaves modillion cornice runs across this wing. The rear of the main range features a lean-to stair-projection with a long stair-light fitted with leaded glazing of later nineteenth-century date.

A two-storey southeast rear wing has an eaves modillion cornice and rendered chimney stack at its south end. This wing contains four windows of 12-pane sashes, with the ground floor lacking a window in the third bay but having a larger sash in the fourth. The rear elevation has two twentieth-century dormers, a lean-to to the left, and a one-window sash range to the right.

A further rear wing, arranged in L-plan with gables to north and south, encloses the south side of the rear courtyard. Its short arm abuts the southwest corner of the southeast wing. The south gable features a rendered stack. The short east side is roughcast with two windows. The long south side, rendered, continues leftward from the chimney gable and incorporates modern windows and a porch. The rear elevation facing the courtyard is mostly twentieth-century fenestration with a slate-roofed lean-to positioned around the gable-end and west side.

The interior follows a central hall plan with principal rooms on either side and a lateral corridor across the rear stair hall. Details throughout are consistent with circa 1800-20, including reeded door and window cases, six-panel doors, panelled shutters, and delicate undercut plaster mouldings.

The entrance hall displays a moulded cornice and a segmental-arched recess on the east wall with elaborate plaster mouldings and panelling in the arch soffit. The west wall carries an early nineteenth-century marble fireplace with paterae in the angles. A broad elliptical arch at the north end is a twentieth-century insertion, possibly replacing an earlier columned screen. A lateral passage with modillion cornice provides access to the northeast room and features a panelled arch to the west leading to an altered passage with remnants of original plasterwork, possibly originally accessing a garden door. An elliptical arch to the south opens onto the stair hall.

The stair hall has a curved back wall with a fine curving ashlar cantilevered stair fitted with scrolled wrought iron balusters and a moulded rail. Panelled arches to the east and west open into the rear wings.

The northeast front room is finished with a fine moulded modillion cornice featuring a centre acanthus rose with a border of quatrefoil rosettes. Two doors are placed on the west wall and a fireplace on the east, faced with grey marble and furnished with two columns and an iron grate.

The northwest front room has a moulded cornice with a rose featuring an acanthus centre and border with husk festoons and radial Adamesque flutes. An early nineteenth-century white marble fireplace with floral angle plaques and a centre plaque depicting a classical female figure with harp occupies the wall. An iron grate is present. The wall between this room and the hall is noticeably thicker than the opposite wall and may survive from an earlier house.

The stair features a plaster cornice with console brackets and a centre rose. The landing has an elliptical arch to the north and round arches to the west and east, now infilled with fire doors. Evidence of severe subsidence relatively early in the building's history appears on the doors to the northwest and northeast rooms, marked by bolted iron strengthening plates of early nineteenth-century date. The front bedrooms and second floor carry simple early nineteenth-century details.

The roof of the main range comprises very broad queen-post trusses with angle struts.

The southeast rear wing contains varied panelled doors, some with fielded panelling. Its roof is constructed from pine queen-post trusses. A rear stair with stick balusters is present. One ground floor room retains a painted timber chimney-piece with festoons and drops.

The south rear range is substantially altered, with the ground floor now open as a single room. A timber lintel to an east fireplace may be original. Stone stairs to the side have been rebuilt, possibly on the original site. The southwest portion has thick walls and contains another large fireplace.