Avalon House, Pant-y-goitre

Pant-y-Goitre House and Avalon This comprises the main block of the old Pant-y-Goitre, Avalon being the top floor and its approach. The former service wing is now a separate dwelling called Velindre and is listed separately (qv). The house is said to be built of red brick but is now completely rendered and painted except for the Bath limestone ashlar details. The natural slate roof is hidden behind the tall parapets. Double depth plan of a large rectangular three storey block with 6 x 5 windows. The planning has been altered, see History. East (entrance) front: This is of six bays with the entrance in the fourth bay from the left (Pant-y-Goitre) while the entrance to Avalon is in the link (see Avalon). The ground floor has a projecting 8-bay colonnade of unfluted Doric columns supporting a plain entablature. The centrepiece of two bays is heightened by an additional two panels and cornice, the entrance door is below the right hand part of this. Six over 6 pane sashes with stone cills in plain openings. The first floor has six more 6 over 6 pane sashes, the second floor has 3 x 3 pane casements. Deep ashlar cornice with the centre section raised as before. Central downpipe revealing that the roof has a centre valley between two hipped roofs running on the 5-bay axis; chimney to right hand end on this elevation. North (river) front: This was the entrance front to the original house (see History). This has 5-bays with a 7-bay ashlar colonnade returned from the east as before though without a central feature on the cornice. Window details to the three floors are as on the east elevation. The eaves cornice carries a heightened feature over the three central windows. West (garden) front: This is severely plain with window details as before. Bays 1 and 2 however on both ground and first floors have been affected by the addition of a large conservatory, French door on the ground floor into the conservatory, two blind windows above. Bay 3 has a modern French casement with marginal glazing. Plain continuous cornice, chimney to right hand end of roof. South (road) elevation: This elevation is featureless but has a two storey link to Velindre the first bay of which carries the entrance for Avalon.

Avalon is the second floor of the main block. Its windows are 3 x 3 pane casements, a C20 alteration.

Interior not available at resurvey.