Forest House, University of Glamorgan

A symmetrical late-Georgian style house of 2 storeys and 7 bays, comprising main house and rear service wing, with an early C20 wing set back on the L side. The main house has walls rendered and painted white over a rubble-stone basement. The hipped roof projects on bracketed eaves and has synthetic slates replacing original slates. The front has 12-pane sash windows in moulded architraves. These are taller in the lower storey and have a sill band in the upper storey. A single-storey central porch, added in the 3rd quarter of the C19, has paired fluted pilasters, replaced double doors beneath a round arch with overlight, and roof concealed behind a moulded cornice. The side walls of the main house have rubble walls and brick dressings, with flat arches to sash windows. In the L side wall are 2 narrower bays, to the L of which is a vertical joint and a later extension of 2 bays (which has a domed cellar beneath). The R side wall is 2 bays, beyond which the main stair is recessed within a walled courtyard. The service wing is of snecked stone with tooled dressings and has a hipped roof of synthetic slates replacing original slates. This is 3 bays in the R side wall, and 5 bays to the rear, with a central 2-storey canted bay window.

On the L side of the service wing is a later link to the early C20 wing added by Teather & Wilson. Its front is set well back on the L side of the main house. It is 3 storeys, of pebble dashed walls painted white and replaced windows. The felt covered shallow pitched roof is a replacement of the early 1990s. The 7-bay front and 5-bay L side wall have simple classical detail in the 2 lower storeys.

An entrance vestibule leads through an elliptical arch with half-round columns into the stair hall added in the third quarter of the C19. The stair has a wreathed hand rail, plain balusters and moulded tread ends. To the L and R are 2 large rooms, on the R retaining panelled shutters to the windows, subdivided on the L. The rear service wing has an open-well stair with iron balusters. Beneath the L side of the house is a domed cellar or cistern with a central pillar on a plinth.