Brocastle

Brocastle is a house constructed in the Tudorbethan style, likely dating to the 18th century. It is built of rendered stone with tooled ashlar dressings and exposed quoins, featuring a Welsh slate roof with overhanging boarded eaves and rendered external stacks at the left end and along the ridge. Further external stacks are present at the rear. The plan is roughly cruciform, although the cross bays are shallow. The house is two storeys high with an attic, and has a five-bay main frontage, with a central gable that projects. Throughout, windows are in a 17th-century style, featuring either hollow chamfered lights or cross-framed windows, all with square hoodmoulds. A ground floor bay has a pitched roof and cross-framed windows. A steeply gabled stone porch with raised quoins and deep boarded eaves is located centrally to the left, with steps leading to a doorway featuring a square hoodmould and a moulded nine-panelled Tudor arched door, above which is a small moulded mullioned light. Two single-storey bays are stepped down to the left, with similarly shaped openings. The side elevation on the right also has stone-framed windows. Rear windows are of wood, incorporating cross-framed and casement styles, alongside a small canted bay to the ground floor of a cross gable end. A partly glazed rear door, also Tudor arched, is accessed via a flight of stone steps. The front grounds are bordered by a high, stepped rubble wall; the main drive entrance has renewed gates, but a smaller arched footway retains a delicate wrought iron gate.

Inside, a central hall connects the front and back entrances, and a passage runs at right angles, providing access to all rooms, incorporating a dark wood staircase with barleysugar balusters at the crossing. Features preserved include shutters, panelled bays, reveals, panelled ceilings, moulded cornices, heavily moulded door surrounds, skirting boards, and six-panelled doors. On the ground floor, two Tudor arched stone fireplaces retain heavy moulded wood surrounds, though without sills. Upper floor fireplaces include a decorative cast iron metal fireplace and another of grey marble with a bracketed mantelpiece. It is possible some materials were reused from the demolished Dunraven Castle.