Cascade House

Substantial industrialist's residence, upgraded from a farmhouse. Plan of central farmhouse section and two later gabled cross wings at each end, with further wing extending at end left. 2 storeys and cellar. Of stone mostly stucco rendered though back of central wing is unrendered, all painted white; Welsh slate roof with overhanging boarded eaves and painted rendered stacks, ridge stacks to central unit and narrow rear and end stacks to later wings. Central farmhouse section has a 4-window range of small 4-pane sashes with sills; similar window replaces former central doorway which shows blocked arch and roofline of former porch. Cross wings have larger windows with 6-pane sashes, the side panes narrower; that at ground floor right is a French window with steps leading to garden; smaller panes to the tri-partite windows of the single bay at end left. Corniced flat-roofed porch is in the angle between the left end and cross wings; round-arched entrance and deep side window. To side and rear are some 12-pane sashes with narrow glazing bars and without horns; at side right is a second porch with basket-arched doorway, another doorway blocked; rear side windows have cambered heads; rear farmhouse section has central doorway flanked by side windows, one corner curved.

Porch has large round-arched multipane side window; hallway leads from porch and has stairs with wreathed ramped handrail and decorative treads, stick balusters replaced with slender turned ones. Doors are 4-panelled and some have panelled reveals and moulded surrounds, likewise the windows. The central farmhouse section with substantially lower ceiling is now a single room with connecting lobbies to outer wings; large fireplace in end right wall has large inset fireback of 1762 with fleur de lys motif, probably referring to a foundry at nearby Fleur de Lys, and initials WM, thought to refer to William Morgan; removal of plaster shows masonry to be in narrow courses. End wing right, former barn range and now a self-contained unit, retains a lower ceiling.