Dulais Fach

Dulais Fach and Dulais Isaf House

The entrance block (now Dulais Isaf House) is a 2-storey house of pebble-dashed walls with blind panels bordered with render, hipped slate roof with a stack behind to the R and an added stack on the L side. The front has deep canted bay windows to the outer bays with sash windows and a sill band to the upper storey. A central portico has 2 moulded Tuscan columns and moulded entablature and supports a balcony. The balcony has a replaced glazed door. The main doorway has an overlight and double half-lit panelled doors. The R side wall is 1-bay with 12-pane sash windows in each storey. The L end wall has 2 upper-storey sash windows and a glazed doorway inserted lower L. A 3-bay rear wing is set back on the L side This has 2 sash windows in the lower storey and an added lean-to porch on the L side. The upper storey retains a sash window on the L side, the central window being a small-pane replacement, the R-hand window boarded up. To the rear of the wing and of the main house is Dulais Fach, the front of which faces E.

Dulais Fach is the earlier house and is a 3-storey, 3-bay late Georgian house, roughcast and painted cream, with a slate roof and end roughcast stacks. Flanking the central doorway, which has an added porch and replaced door, are late C19 tripartite sash windows. The middle storey has 12-pane hornless sash windows, while the shorter upper storey windows are late C19 replacements beneath the wall plate.

Set back on the R side is a lower 2-storey service wing of rubble stone with dressed quoins, and a slate roof with stone ridge stacks to the L of centre and to the R. The 3-window front wall has segmental-headed 2-light small-pane casements, except lower L where a horned sash window is inserted.