Cwrt-yr-Ala House

Country house in restrained Neo-Georgian style. Rendered with a hipped pantile roof behind parapet; broad rendered stacks sit astride the ridges. U-shaped plan comprising the main reception range with garden frontage at centre, service range on uphill (W) side and billiard room on downhill (E) side. 2 storeys. Windows are large multipane sashes, almost full-length to ground floor, shutters to the main ground floor range; shallow corner pilasters topped by small urns. Entrance frontage is at E, altogether a 6-window range; the return bay of the garden frontage projects to left with a small porch in the adjacent angle, plain single panel door with overlight. Garden frontage is a wholly symmetrical 7-window range, giving onto a balustraded terrace. W-facing elevation (left) has a similar return front bay and a 6-window range; this has views over the sunken garden.

A corridor runs along the spine of the house with the main reception rooms opening off - drawing room, music room, study, dining room at garden end of kitchen range - all with garden views. Staircase with painted cast-iron bannisters rises to rear. Polished wood floors. Most remarkable are the plastered and painted Adamesque ceilings. Elegant fireplaces retained.