Bryn Towy Mansion

Bryn Towy Mansion is a late Georgian house featuring two storeys with cement render elevations and hipped slate roofs. The building has mostly wide eaves and includes cement render and pebbledash chimney stacks. The main part of the house has a square plan and a similar height wing set back to the left. It is predominantly fitted with 16-pane sash windows.

The main front has three windows with scribed render, a high plinth, a stringcourse above the ground floor, and a toothed valence below the eaves, which is also repeated on the side elevations. Later 19th-century alterations include a central arched headed hall window with marginal glazing bars and a broad, deep porch accessed by a tall flight of steps. The porch features paired iron columns and dentilled eaves. The entrance has panelled reveals and a four-panel door, with the upper panels being cusped, along with a fanlight and modern stained glass sidelights. Flanking the entrance are splayed bay windows added to the ground floor, which have slate roofs, wide bracket eaves, and horned sash windows.

The right-hand side of the house has four windows, with the stringcourse continuing from the front and one dummy window. The left-hand return side of the main front is slate hung and features one blocked window. The rear of the house has irregularly spaced windows, including one blocked window and a tall central arched headed stairwell window. There is a single-storey gable-ended extension at right angles to the main building. The two-storey wing on the left lacks the ornamental detail of the main range, featuring a two-window front (one dummy) and a half-glazed door, with a three-window rear facing a paved courtyard.

Inside, the mansion retains significant contemporary details, including six-panel doors and arched recesses. A tall archway in the hallway leads to the central staircase, which has turned balusters and ‘S’ shaped tread ends. There is a splayed recess for the stairwell window and a broad landing. The dining room features a recess in the rear wall with ‘in antis’ detached cabled columns and foliated capitals. The cellar is accessed by stone steps and has a partially cobbled floor with stone larder shelves.