Newton House

Newton House is a large square-plan house of three storeys plus attics, built in stone (mainly rendered) with a pyramidal slate roof topped by a group of six large chimney stacks.

The rendered south entrance front is dominated by two gables, with the right gable advanced. The ground floor features an exposed stone doorway to a porch with a four-centred head decorated with floral spandrels. The inner doorway has similar form with stops carved with tulips emerging from vases, and is flanked by stone benches. A door with a smaller door set into its centre occupies the main opening. A wooden mullion and transom window stands to the right. At attic level is a three-light stone mullion and transom window. The second floor has a partially blocked four-light window, while the first floor retains a three-light wooden mullion and transom window. The left gable has an attic window matching that of the right gable but blocked. At second floor level is a four-light mullion and transom window with a smaller similar window to its right. The ground floor has a two-light mullion and transom window.

The west elevation features a three-light mullioned window at upper level and a five-light wooden window to the ground floor, with smaller windows (one blocked) to the left.

The north elevation has two gables. The right gable has a pointed two-light window at attic level, four two-light staircase windows towards the right, and a two-light window to each floor set towards the left. The left gable has an attic window matching the right gable, a stone window of two pointed lights at second floor level, and two-light windows to the first and ground floors.

The east elevation features two gables with a large projecting chimney to the right displaying four diamond-set stone stacks. The left gable has a single diamond-set stack, a small two-light attic window, and at second floor level a larger two-light window. The first floor retains two mullion and transom windows with evidence of blocked openings. The ground floor has a pointed-arched doorway with a two-light window to its left.

The interior plan is unusual, organised around a double-height great hall to the south with staircase hall, parlour, and kitchen to the north. Above the hall is a great chamber. Entry passes through the south porch into a former screens passage, now serving as an entrance hall with a service room to the right. The great hall to the left features exposed beams on corbels and a stone flagged floor with a slightly raised dais. The north wall holds a large fireplace with a lintel bearing an inscription in Welsh dated 1582: "John Games mab ag etyfedd hena Edward Games ap John ap Morgan ap Evan ap Morgan ap Davydd Gam 1582" (John Games son and eldest heir of Edward Games, son of John, son of Morgan, son of Evan, son of Morgan, son of Davydd Gam, 1582). Above this is an elaborate heraldic achievement inscribed "Ar Dduw y gyd Games" (All depends on God, Games). At the east end of the hall stands a wooden screen with a pedimented doorcase of circa 1700 featuring double-leaf doors. The screen occupies a lower zone of square panels above which is a zone of rectangular divisions containing a window with turned balusters. The screen was originally a gallery on columns, later filled in with the panelling and pedimented doorcase. At the northwest end of the hall, a staircase hall contains a wooden stair of circa 1700 with turned balusters. From the staircase hall, a blocked doorway with a three-centred head originally gave access to the parlour, which has a fireplace of circa 1700 with bolection moulding and cornices. The ground floor also contains a kitchen with a broad stone arch to the fireplace and an original serving hatch.

At second floor level, the great chamber above the great hall retains pendants against the wall indicating a former decorated plaster ceiling. A 16th-century stone fireplace shows remains of plaster decoration, and the flanking windows feature fine moulded plasterwork of roses and fleurs-de-lys.