The Gwentlands

The Gwentlands is a small Regency country house with Victorian additions. The exterior features stucco-rendered walls and a hipped slate roof with narrow brick stacks and projecting eaves supported by paired brackets. The original rectangular house has an entrance on the east side and a large later cross wing that extends further east and west. It is two stories tall, plus a basement and attic.

The entrance front has a three-window range of sash windows with thin glazing bars, featuring 16 panes on the first floor, and a fourth small sash window set back at the right end, linking with the extension. On the ground floor, there is a splayed bay to the left with tall 15-pane sash windows. A late Victorian classical porch made of Bath stone has banded pilasters and an arched keyblocked entrance. Next to it is a contemporary single-storey bay with four arched windows, which connects to the two-storey cemented extension. This extension has a hipped slate roof and pale brick chimneys at the eaves, along with plate glass sash windows.

The garden front has three windows and features added block pediments on volutes at the ground floor, with outer tripartite sashes and a central niche, as well as small-pane sashes with thin glazing bars. The rear also has three windows, with a wide ashlar splayed bay added around 1890 on the ground floor to the right. There is a two-storey service range with small-pane sashes, a tall blue-brick stack, and a projecting left bay that faces the yard on the north side of the house. The north elevation retains lime render and a range of sash windows.

Inside, the house retains panelled shutters, doors, and reveals from the original period, along with some furnishings from the later refurbishment. A cantilevered stair with a decorative cast-iron balustrade likely dates from the original period.