Dolhaidd Mansion

Large country house, externally of mainly C19 date but of multi-phase construction. The front range appears to predate the remainder. Stucco rendered with pitched slated roofs with gablets and red brick stacks, and mainly 12-pane replacement uPVC sashes. Front range is 2 storey, 4-window. Raised stucco quoins to angles, and plinth. Centre 2 bays have ornate cast iron veranda of three bays with steeply pitched leaded hood. Arcaded front displays fleur-de-lys and foliate designs. Ground floor entrance to 3rd bay from L, beneath veranda, has 4-panelled timber door with glazed upper panels and trisected overlight. Other ground floor openings are replacement 15-pane uPVC sashes with 6-pane uppers and slate sills. Raised stucco surrounds to all openings. Corbelled sills to 1st floor windows - all sashes under eaves gablets. Paired bracketed eaves with drop moulds to angles. Aluminium rainwater goods with downpipes between each bay. R gable end has undecorated timber barge board and blank decorative panels: arched-headed to gable, paired roundels to 1st floor with keystones to cardinal points and 2 arched headed niches to ground floor with stucco keystones and stone sills. E front at right angles, attached to aforementioned gable end, is 2-storey plus attic, 5-window range. Replacement 12-pane uPVC sashes throughout, with raised stucco surrounds and slate sills. 3 gabled dormers containing similar sashes. Paired bracketed eaves. Lower single storey extension to R, stucco rendered. Small late C20 light to L of projecting front gable with small red brick end stack. Small lean-to extension connected to gable end, slate roofed, with small window to E end with head to eaves. W side has 3 storey range with upper floor overlapping original gable end to L. 12-pane uPVC sashes with slightly raised painted stucco hoods and slate sills throughout. 2 windows to upper storey - L bay pierced by former gable. 3 matching openings to 1st floor. Ground floor has smaller 12-pane sashes to centre and R bay, more widely spaced. Central C20 door. L bay has larger 12-pane sash. Pitched slated roof and quoins to angles. To R of this range is gable end to main frontage, mirroring opposing gable, but with blank openings to the ground floor rather than niches. Rear largely obscured by outbuildings and later extensions. Tall red brick stack positioned between two dormers with gablets, slated roofs and 12-pane sashes.

Not inspected, but said to retain Georgian-style timber fireplaces and panelled timber doors. A beam in the attic has an inverted inscription reading "D. L. Esquire. April 2nd 1726" - re-set, and perhaps originally from Llysnewydd. Roof timber arrangement suggests that the facade range is the oldest portion of the present house, and formerly had a hipped roof. The truss frames are pegged.