Coed-y-mwstwr is a Grade II listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 October 1997. House. 2 related planning applications.

Coed-y-mwstwr

WRENN ID
steep-hearth-heath
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bridgend
Country
Wales
Date first listed
15 October 1997
Type
House
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Coed-y-mwstwr is a large, three-storey house built in the late 19th century, likely 1888 as indicated by a datestone. The house is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings, a timbered roof with dormers, and a plain tiled roof punctuated by tall, decorative brick corniced stacks.

The main south-facing frontage, designed to be viewed from a terrace, has three bays. The central bay, which features the main entrance, is the most elaborate. To the left of the entrance on each floor is a large window with five lights, featuring chamfered mullions and a transom in metal frames, set within a moulded stone surround with deeply moulded cornices and surmounted by an embattled parapet. The entrance bay projects forward with a cross gable, decorative finial and coping, and the aforementioned datestone. A large first-floor cross window above the porch is topped with a heavy pediment and decorative scrolls. The porch itself is supported by deep consoles and a crested entablature, with a decorative, shouldered doorway featuring rosettes and billet moulding, with a later glass porch addition. To the left of the central bay is a prominent external chimney stack rising from a bay with offsets, a gablet, broach, and a long, rectangular ground-floor light. The main left bay also features a gable finial, coping, and heavy cornices that extend across the entire frontage; square-headed cross windows are present on all three floors. A slightly set-back wing to the right is similar in style, featuring a front external stack corbelled at the first floor and a black and white roof dormer. All windows have a single light above a transom and two panes below in metal frames, with the upper lights of the main ground-floor windows featuring coloured glass in varied leading patterns.

The garden frontage on the left has a two-storey canted bay with four front and two side lights arranged as mullioned windows, with tile hanging between the floors and a pierced stone parapet surmounted by urns. A single-storey gabled cross wing, likely a former billiard room, extends from this section, incorporating a separately gabled bay and a side entrance. Similar windows, roof dormers, and ridge stacks are found on the side elevations and extensions to the side and rear.

The interior hall has been altered, but a marble floor and pillars are reported to survive beneath later cladding. An intact rear open well wooden staircase, featuring wide-spaced balusters and decorative finials, remains under a segmental wooden staircase arch. A large mullioned staircase window with quarry glazing and coloured glass motifs is also present. The dining room, probably the former billiard room, features a hipped ceiling with decorative woodwork.

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