Penmyarth

Penmyarth is a Regency-style house, originally dating back to the 18th century and remodelled in the 19th century. The house comprises a main range with parallel northeast and northwest wings behind. The main range, facing the garden, is a two-storey building with three bays and a hipped roof. The roof features swept, boarded eaves projecting on brackets, stone tiles (with slate to the rear slope), and tall stacks on the left and right. The upper storey has 16-pane hornless sash windows, while the lower storey features tripartite sash windows on the left and right, and a 19th-century three-quarter-lit door in the centre. The door is flanked by glazed panels and has an overlight incorporating radial glazing. A veranda stands in front of the main range, with paired Doric columns and a moulded entablature, with small-pane glazed panels to the returns.

The eastern entrance front faces the garden and is where the two-storey northeast wing is located. This wing is lower than the main range, has a slate roof, and a central ridge stack. The end wall of the main range has two windows with 12-pane horned sashes. The northeast wing’s entrance is on the left, with service rooms to the right, separated by a high forecourt wall. The doorway to the left has fluted pilasters and a canopy carried on console brackets. The door is made up of six panels beneath an overlight with small-pane glazing in lozenge patterns. Flanking windows have architraves, small-pane glazing, and incorporate a top-hung casement with radial glazing. Further to the right, there are a pair of narrow horned sash windows, beyond which, separated by a wall, are two tripartite sash windows facing a yard. The upper storey of the northeast wing features four similar tripartite windows. A late 19th-century two-storey gabled projection incorporating service rooms sits at the end of the northeast wing. Further service rooms are in lean-tos behind the wings.

The left side wall of the main range has a double hip and a sash window above a glazed door with glazed flanking panels to the left. To the right is a similar 12-pane sash window in the lower storey. A narrow recessed bay, with sash windows incorporating radial glazing and a circular attic window, is situated between the main range and the northwest wing. The northwest wing is two-and-a-half storeys high and has three windows. Hipped roof dormers have 2-light casements with small pane glazing. In the upper and lower storeys are tripartite sash windows to the centre and left. To the right are paired 9-pane sash windows in the upper storey and French doors flanked by glazed panels below.

The house was not inspected at the time of survey in August 1997.