Llanrumney Hall PH

Llanrumney Hall, now a public house, is a former mansion house of rendered stone with a hipped roof mostly covered in Welsh slate, overhanging eaves with boarded soffit and double-bracketed detail, and narrow stone ridge stacks with narrow cornice.

The main entrance frontage faces south and rises 3 storeys. The south elevation displays a 5-window range of Gothick glazed cambered-headed sash windows with shallow reveals and narrow sills: 6-pane to the upper floor, 12-pane to the first floor, and larger 12-pane windows to the ground floor with sills at plinth level. A central flat-roofed portico with two pairs of Doric columns supports an entablature with pilasters to the rear. The west elevation, facing the road, has similar Gothick-glazed windows: 3 on the top floor, 4 on the first floor, and 2 on the ground floor, one of which is tri-partite, with a doorway at the end left.

The west side has a single-storey rear wing containing a skittle alley, which has 4 windows with replaced glazing. The east side elevation is 3 storeys and includes a lower 2-storey hipped-roof wing stepped back with a lean-to, and a single-storey hipped-roofed billiard room at the front. The east 2-storey extension has margin-glazed windows, while the attached billiard room has wooden mullions and transoms with cambered arches.

The building incorporates work from the early post-medieval period. A first-floor window on the north side recorded in the Royal Commission on the Ancient Monuments of Wales survey of 1981 has 2 square-headed lights with sunk-chamfered dressings and plain hoodmould, with evidence of thick walls from this early phase.

The interior contains main rooms either side of the entrance, leading to a large open stairwell that has been partly converted into a bar. The room to the left retains a moulded plasterwork ceiling, reportedly of the 16th century though probably repaired, incorporating lozenges, hexagons, fleur-de-lys and Tudor roses; these shapes are echoed in mouldings on window shutters, soffit, and a panelled dado. It has a Tudor-arched but not original fireplace and parquet floor. The room to the right has a moulded plaster panelled ceiling of different design, also incorporating the Tudor rose motif, with decorative cornice and strapwork-style band below; heavily reed-moulded architrave to windows with panelled shutters and soffit; and a renewed fireplace.

The staircase hall contains a metal grate of approximately 1900, narrow coloured tiles in herringbone design with heraldic mosaic plaques, and a coffered mantelpiece. A plaque unveiled in 1988 marks the 300th anniversary of the death of Captain Henry Morgan and his association with Llanrumney and Llanrumney Hall. A grand dark polished wood staircase with decorative finials to the newel posts and turned balusters rises to a landing, with balusters continuing round the other three sides of the open well. The landing is lit by a 3-bay gabled roof light supported by bolted king-post trusses resting on face corbels. Doors off the landing retain moulded surrounds with panelled reveals and soffits, and shutters, from the earlier 19th-century remodelling. A dressed stone doorway with 4-centred head and plain chamfered jambs, recorded in the 1981 Royal Commission survey, is reset in a late 18th-century or early 19th-century barrel-vaulted cellar.