Maesycrugiau Manor

Maesycrugiau Manor is a Tudor-Gothic style country house comprising a double-depth block of 1 and 2 storeys with a 3-storey entrance tower, alongside which stands a 1½-storey service wing at right angles, creating an overall L-shaped plan. Other principal rooms, including a great hall, drawing room and library, were designed but not built; these were to have been positioned to the left of the entrance tower.

The walls are constructed of rock-faced stone with Bath stone dressings and red-tile roofs. Windows throughout are fitted with stone mullions. The 2-bay entrance tower features a doorway to the left with a Tudor arch of continuous mouldings and a stepped surround with low-relief foliage carved into the spandrels and a coat of arms above. To its right is a 3-light window serving a lavatory. The second storey contains a 3-light window to the left and a 2-light window to the right; the upper storey has similar 2-light windows. A corbelled polygonal corner turret in the upper storey to the left provides asymmetrical accent. The parapet sits above a corbel table.

To the right of the entrance tower is the single-storey billiard room, lit by three cross windows. The left (south) wall of the entrance tower has a 2-light window in each storey, to the left of which stands a stub wall, then 3-light, 4-light and 2-light windows in what was originally intended as an internal wall. Further left is the side wall of the dining room, featuring similar mullioned windows and a segmental-headed doorway that was never completed. The rear (west) gabled elevation of the dining room rises 2½ storeys. The dining room is illuminated by a 3-light window flanked by 2-light windows, all with double transoms. Above these is a 7-light transomed window and a 2-light window in the attic. The short north return elevation displays a 3-light window with double transom lighting the dining room, above which is a stone eaves stack with four twisted stone shafts. Set back to the left of the dining room is a 4-light transomed canted bay window with a 4-light window above it, and to their left is a small single-light window. The return (north) elevation has 4-light windows in each storey; to their left are 3-light transomed stair windows positioned above stone steps leading to a boarded cellar door beneath a segmental arch. Further left are mullioned windows and panelled doors serving the service rooms.

The service wing faces the entrance court to the south. Its 4-window front incorporates 2-, 3- and 4-light mullioned windows and two 2-light half dormers under gables. Two stacks are present: one in stone with a pair of diagonally set shafts, the other rebuilt in brick. At the east end is a single-storey return now used as a garage.

Internally, the entrance porch has a diaper floor and a segmental ribbed tunnel vault. Panelled double doors open into a vestibule with a matching diaper floor, segmental ribbed vault, wood-panelled walls and a fireplace with tiled surround. A long corridor provides access to the principal rooms on either side. The dining room retains panelled walls, a fireplace with marble surround and a plaster ceiling decorated with vine trails in low relief. The billiard room features a large segmental-arched stone fireplace and is top-lit by a rectangular lantern. A relatively simple open-well stair at the end of the corridor has plain balusters and a moulded newel. Doorways throughout have shouldered surrounds with panelled doors. The service wing contains similar doorway surrounds and a plainer stair.