Neuadd

Neuadd is a Gothic Revival style house dating to the mid-19th century, with elements of a 17th-century plan incorporated. Constructed of sandstone rubble with ashlar detailing, it features a Welsh slate roof with a prominent central ridge stack. The building is arranged in three distinct units: the main house centrally located, a former housekeeper’s house to the left with a visible lower roofline, and a narrow chapel or library wing to the right, distinguished by a steep, separate gabled roof.

The main frontage is characterised by three asymmetrical, steeply gabled sections. The central gable has a cross window on the first floor, featuring a deep moulded frame and a hoodmould above. To the left of the central gable is a shouldered lancet window with a narrow sash, while to the right is an ecclesiastical-style two-light window with geometric tracery and a raised voussoired surround. The left gable is corbelled at first-floor level, with an offset string course continuing at this level, stepped over the pointed arched and chamfered front doorway, which has a recessed, vertically panelled, studded door. This string course also continues across the right gable, bisected by a stepped buttress with stone-tiled offsets, and with cross-frame windows on each side. Some window glazing remains in diamond quarries. The sash in the right gable window slides sideways into the wall and one other first floor sash slides upwards. The single-storey chapel or library wing breaks forward and has a trefoil-headed lancet window in its upper part. The left-hand side features the two bays of the housekeeper’s wing, which has no first-floor windows. Ground-floor windows are cross-frame, with a continuous hoodmould connecting them to the corbelling of the centre-left gable. The main entrance is now on the side, formerly the housekeeper’s entrance, and comprises a vertically panelled door with decorative hinges, and a pointed, chamfered arched sash lancet above. Rear windows of the housekeeper’s wing have been altered but retain stone hoods. The main central unit is asymmetrical, with a tall, wide central gable with unequal verges, and a trefoil-headed landing light. The roof extends forward at a different pitch over the staircase, which has a sash lancet window in the return. There is an end gable to the left of the former chapel/library wing.

The interior retains the mid-19th century plan, integrating elements of an earlier 17th-century plan, with ground-floor rooms having single depths. The first floor has a narrow rear landing to the main house. A former separate staircase served the housekeeper’s wing, rising from the kitchen, which retains a flagstone floor. Door surrounds are in a late Regency style. The main living room features a deeply coffered ceiling and fine quality raised-panel shutters. A curved stone staircase leads to the first floor.