Maesderwen

Maesderwen is a country house dating from the 18th century. The main block is square, three-stories high and two bays wide, with a pyramid roof. It has deep, flat eaves and tall rendered side stacks. The front wall facing the main garden is constructed of Bath stone ashlar, while the rest of the house is unpainted stucco. Flanking the main block are two-story, hipped wings, each a single bay wide. The wings have rendered bow fronts and moulded eaves. Hornless sash windows are a feature throughout.

The garden front is particularly distinguished by a Bath stone facade with French windows on the ground floor, a sill band below two 12-pane sash windows on the first floor, and another sill band below six-pane square sash windows in the attic, set under the eaves. These bands project forward over thin and a broad central pier. A delicate and decorative wrought iron trellis, without glazing and featuring a tented roof, spans the front of the ground floor. The trellis has tapering openwork uprights and small spandrel pieces in the upper corners. Canted bays on the outer sides connect to the bowed wings.

The wings' rendered bow fronts have ashlar plinths. They feature French windows below and large 12-pane sashes above, all set under moulded timber eaves. The roofs are canted and hipped at the outer southeast and northeast angles, however the south wing has a regular hip to the rear southwest, while the north wing’s corner is splayed northwest with a canted hip. The north wing’s north side has a blind window and a 12-pane sash on the first floor, above a single-story extension with a dentilled cornice over two 16-pane sashes in reveals continued to the ground. This extension has floating ashlar capitals below the cornice at the outer angles. An ashlar plinth is present, broken forward at the angles. The west side of the north wing has a 12-pane sash above a blocked door, while the west side of the south wing has a blank window above a long 15-pane sash that illuminates the service stair.

The main block’s front is rendered with six-pane attic windows, 12-pane first-floor windows, and a small window on the ground floor to the right, lighting a stairwell. This front is flanked by a large, off-centre, irregular classical porch. The porch is enclosed and flat-roofed, with a timber entablature and dentil cornice over a three-bay front. The right bay is wider than the left; both have windows with marginal panes and moulded timber architraves. The centre bay features a six-panel door with a large two-pane overlight, also in a similar architrave, and is accessed via an interior double half-glazed door with a fanlight.

Two single-story hipped-roof service ranges are attached to the south side of the house. One, set back to the left of the garden front, has a door and two 12-pane sashes, with a tall rendered chimney off-centre on the ridge and an arched doorway with a six-panel door and fanlight in the south end. This range partially encloses the south side of an entrance courtyard.

The interior has not been inspected.