Miskin Manor, including one-storey range to N is a Grade II listed building in the Rhondda Cynon Taf local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 October 1976. Country house.

Miskin Manor, including one-storey range to N

WRENN ID
buried-slate-plover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taf
Country
Wales
Date first listed
28 October 1976
Type
Country house
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Miskin Manor is a country house mainly in Tudor-Gothic style, consisting of 2 and 3 storeys with attics and an L-shaped plan. The main elevations are constructed of snecked rock-faced sandstone with lighter dressings and mullioned windows, while the rear eastern side is partly of rubble stone. The slate roofs were replaced following a fire in 1952 and feature ridge stacks with tall octagonal shafts arranged in groups of 2, 3 and 4. Rainwater heads bear the initials 'RW' in relief.

The 6-bay entrance front faces west and is asymmetrical, with a central entrance, 2 storeys to the right and 3 storeys to the left, both containing attics, and a plain parapet enlivened with grotesques. The doorway is Tudor-headed and surmounted by a tablet bearing the family crest in relief, above which are 3-light mullioned windows. To the right of the entrance, the principal rooms are housed. The main hall immediately right occupies a projecting bay with a 6-light mullioned and transomed window. Above it are 2 cross windows and a 2-light attic window in a gablet projecting on a corbel table. Further right is the drawing room, featuring a 5-light canted bay window with grotesques on the parapet, above which are a 3-light window and a 2-light attic window in a gablet. To the left of the entrance is an advanced bay with single-light fenestration to the lower storey, 2-light and single-light to the middle and upper storeys, and a single-light attic window in a gable projecting on a corbel table. Next left is a recessed bay with a hood-moulded window in the lower storey, followed by a wider advanced gabled bay with a 4-light window in the middle storey, 3-light window above, and a single-light attic window. At the left end, set back, is a single-light middle storey window and an obscured mullioned cellar window. In front of the left end stands a free-standing rubble stone round arch, said to belong to the earlier house.

The 4-bay south garden front is asymmetrical but more regular than the entrance front. To the centre right, the library occupies an advanced bay incorporating a full-height 3-light canted bay window. To the left of this bay are two 3-light windows in the lower storey, cross windows in the upper storey, and a single 2-light attic window to the left in a gablet. This is balanced by a gablet with attic window to the right-hand bay, which features a pair of cross windows in the lower storey and a 3-light window above.

The east garden front is also asymmetrical, comprising 7 irregular bays. The 3 bays to the left are 2 storeys of rock-faced stone, while the remainder are 3 storeys of rubble stone. To the right of centre is a doorway with flanking lights, Tudor-headed with foliage to the spandrels, above which is a 3-light window and single flanking windows, all recessed under a corbel table. The upper storey has a 2-light window. To the left of the entrance bay is a 3-light canted bay window with parapet, 2 cross windows in the middle storey and a 2-light window in the upper storey. Above is a moulded string course and a shaped gable with external stack and 2 shafts. Next left is a cross window in the lower storey and a 3-light window above, then an external stack carried through a shaped gable with 3 flues, 2 now without their copings. At the left end, lighting the dining room, is a cross window cut down to form a doorway, and a cross window above. To the right of the entrance is a full-height canted bay window of 3 lights, at the base of which are concrete cellar steps. On its right side is an altered link to a large Tudor-style north-east wing added in the late 20th century.

The north side of the house also features late 20th-century additions. On the north-west side, the house is attached to an earlier coach house, subsequently altered as part of the domestic accommodation. This is a long single-storey range of rubble stone with a tile roof replacing earlier stone tiles, and 2 stone ridge stacks. In its south gable end is a round-headed loft doorway opening to the top of the free-standing arch at the north-west end of the main house. A vertical joint in the west wall indicates 2 main building phases, with the south end being later. The west wall has windows with mullions of reconstituted stone. A doorway offset from the right end is sheltered under a gablet. To the centre are 2 infilled elliptical brick arches of former through passages, the right-hand of which now contains a doorway. A 20th-century doorway immediately to their left is crudely cut in. A lean-to against the north gable end extends in brick. The east wall faces a courtyard and has mostly late 19th-century openings, though much altered.

Most interior detail was lost in the fire of 1952, but some of the principal rooms survived sufficiently for accurate restoration. The main hall retains a Tudor-Gothic chimneypiece, panelled walls, and Jacobean panelled ceilings and coving. The Tudor-Gothic doors have classical architraves. The drawing room further right has a deep panelled ceiling with pendants and a Tudor-arched fireplace with a classical chimneypiece. The dining room features a similar classical chimneypiece and ceiling with pendants. The former billiard room facing the gardens to the east retains a Tudor-Gothic fireplace.

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