Aberglasney

Aberglasney is a Queen Anne house with later Georgian remodelling, arranged around a small central courtyard. The building comprises a main entrance range facing north, a west wing overlooking the garden, and service wings to the south and east (partly roofless at the time of inspection).

The principal elevations are rendered with rusticated quoins in the west range. The south and west fronts are exposed rubble stone, with slate roofs and roughcast stacks applied to the entrance range and west range only.

The entrance front is a symmetrical 3-storey elevation of 9 bays, grouped 2+5+2, with windows featuring segmental heads and plat bands. A porte cochere spans the central 5 bays, supported by 4 Ionic columns with single columns set further back in the outer bays, and a reconstructed pediment. This porte cochere conceals a round window surviving from the original Queen Anne design. The central doorway has an Ionic wooden doorcase with double fielded-panel doors. The flanking bays contain tall 2-pane sash windows lighting the entrance hall, while the outer bays have 2-pane sash windows in the lower storey. The middle and upper storeys have 12-pane horned sash windows. The left gable end of the entrance range features a gable stack and 12-pane sash windows to the lower left and middle right; a small window to the upper right is blocked.

The asymmetrical west garden front contains 7 windows. The gable end of the entrance range has an offset 2-storey canted bay window inserted in the 1850s, with balustrade and a tripartite 2-pane upper-storey window beneath a cornice. Further right the windows are grouped 1+3+2, consisting of sash windows in architraves with segmental heads and cornices, larger in the lower storey. Below the central group of 3 windows is a 3-bay loggia of keyed round-arches on octagonal columns, executed in exposed red sandstone. Inside the loggia are a central doorway flanked by square-headed 12-pane sash windows. The right-hand pair of windows are in the gable end of the south service wing, offset to the left in the lower two storeys, with a single larger blind window in the upper storey.

The south wing comprises a roofless 2-storey 3-window central range with roughcast walls and single-window 3-storey outer bays with end stacks. Openings have cambered brick heads. The central doorway and flanking windows are boarded up. The left outer bay has broad 16-pane sash windows in the lower and middle storeys and a 12-pane upper-storey window. The right-hand bay has similar openings, boarded up in the lower and middle storeys. The east service wing, advanced in front of the gable end of the entrance range, was originally 3-storey but now survives only just above the second storey. It contains boarded-up doorways to right and left, with a boarded-up window above the right-hand doorway and a 12-pane sash window above the left-hand doorway. A boarded-up window stands centrally at a higher level, above which is a 12-pane hornless sash, probably originally lighting a former stairway.

Within the courtyard are added lean-tos against the west and east wings (the latter now roofless) and a lean-to housing a stair built against the entrance range.

The interior has been largely gutted and retains few original fixtures. The late 18th-century double-height entrance hall preserves fragments from the period of Haycock's work: a plaster cornice incorporating brackets, egg-and-dart and dentil friezes. A pointed arch opposite the entrance opens into the former stairway, which contains a pointed small-pane sash window. The room on the left side retains fragments of a 3-bay panelled ceiling with ornate cornices.