Lisvane House

Lisvane House is a house built in an individualistic Arts and Crafts style, likely dating to the late 19th or early 20th century. The design is highly asymmetrical, with roofs at various angles and pitches and a wide range of building materials including brick, roughcast, tile hanging, applied timbering, plasterwork, ashlar, and rockfaced stone. The tiled roof incorporates wide, flat-roofed dormers that provide views from each side, though most of the stacks have been removed.

The windows are predominantly rectangular panels of leaded quarries, some of which have lost their leading, set in moulded frames and mullions to the front. There are also sashes and casements of differing designs. The road frontage is three stories high and incorporates a large number of features. The ground floor, constructed of snecked rockfaced stone with ashlar surrounds, has five windows of different shapes to the left of the front entrance bay. This bay projects forward and features an elaborate dark wood doorway with a moulded arch over an asymmetrical panelled door and a side light, both glazed with decorative leading and a dolphin motif. A multipane overlight is also present. To the right of the doorway is a three-light window.

The first floor to the left is a combination of brick and roughcast. It has three windows beneath a deep, boarded soffit with brackets and a tiled overhang. A wide bay window juts out over the doorway, surmounted by a small, black and white timbered gable featuring a shell motif. To the right, a bracketed band of half-timbering with heavy brackets creates a jetty/balcony effect with a two-light window above. Above the left side is a part-timbered, wholly asymmetrical gable end with vertical banding to the external stack and a small window to the side, where the roof sweeps down to the right. To the left, the roof sweeps down to a lower level and changes to a shallower pitch over the first-floor gallery of the side elevation. Above the entrance bay is a flat-roofed dormer.

The garden frontage on the right side has three unequal first-floor windows; a tile-hung bay to the left, and timber panelling incorporating pargetting at the centre. The ground floor has two three-light windows to the left and a recessed garden bay supported by a cast iron column, leading onto a brick and tile terrace with steps down. At the end to the right are two single-storey bays: one with a hipped roof supported by heavy brackets, and one with a steep gable with overhanging eaves and applied timbering. A canted bay to the left has latticed lights, and a full-length mullioned window to the right, all set within ashlar surrounds. A large crow-stepped external stack is located on the side elevation, with flanking, chamfered, pointed-arched lights.

The interior was designed by Seward to complement his collection of antique furniture and fittings, including a staircase dating from 1688. The house is now subdivided into separate dwellings.