Roath Court

Roath Court is a Georgian house of an irregular plan, dating back to the 18th century, with later additions to the south and west sides and projections behind the original structure. The core of the house is a three-storey, five-bay building with stucco walls and a slate roof, hipped to the right and featuring bracketed eaves. A half-glazed door is situated to the left of centre on the ground floor, above which is a plain overlight. There is a pair of twelve-pane sash windows in the centre, a small-pane sash window to the right of centre, and tripartite sash windows in the outer bays. The middle floor has twelve-pane, horned sashes, while the upper floor has smaller six-pane, horned sashes.

The faceted south wing to the left has two-pane sashes. The left (south) side of the property features two bays with two-pane sashes, with an entrance bay under a separate hipped roof, incorporating a tripartite sash window in the upper storey and a Ham stone portico below. The portico has pairs of Tuscan columns and a Doric frieze incorporating aegricana. New double doors are within the porch, with a plain overlight. A lower wall with a round-headed opening screens off a small courtyard behind the entrance.

The rear of the south wing features Tuscan pilasters and an entablature framing a single sash window. To its left is the three-window south side wall of the higher west wing, built in two phases under separate hipped roofs. On the right side is a tripartite window set within a blind arch, with freestanding Tuscan columns in front; above the arch is a tripartite upper-storey window. A wall, set slightly back to the left, mirrors the south wing’s pilasters and entablature but is intersected by a full-height canted bay window with two-pane sashes. To the right of the bay window is a half-glazed door and a four-pane sash window in the upper storey. The rear elevation of the west wing is white-painted brick; the north side wall has a two-storey canted bay window with small-pane sashes and small-pane sash windows to the left, each with thin glazing bars. Further projections behind the main range, each under separate hipped roofs, have additional small-pane sash windows, and a lean-to is located at the north end. A two-storey wing is added at an angle to the northeast side.

The interior has been converted to office space for a funeral home, but retains a 19th-century open-well staircase in the rear wing.