Cwmcarvan Court

Cwmcarvan Court is a two-storey house built in the elegant style of the Georgian period. It is likely constructed of rubble, rendered with a white roughcast finish, and has hipped slate roofs with prominently oversailing eaves. The house is L-shaped, consisting of a main front range running east to west facing south towards the garden, and a long wing extending to the rear (east) of the western half. The symmetrical three-window south front is unusually long with widely-spaced openings and end-wall chimneys. The central doorway is round-headed and sheltered by a segmental canopy supported by consoles and slender cast-iron posts, with reeded jambs, a recessed part-glazed door, and a fanlight with radiating glazing bars. A 16-pane sash window sits above the doorway. Flanking the doorway are two narrow, two-storey semicircular bays, each featuring curved tripartite multi-pane sash windows. The east return wall has two 12-pane sashes on each floor, the upper windows being smaller. The east side of the rear wing, which now serves as the main entrance front, has three large segmental-headed windows on each floor, vertically aligned but irregularly spaced; the middle windows are offset to the left. The ground floor window at the far right is sashed, while the others have unique three-light joinery with high-set transoms and leaded small-pane glazing. The mullions and transoms are flat-faced, with glazing that appears almost flush, and the central pane of each window has a cast-iron casement with external hinges. The current main entrance, a likely early 20th-century addition, has a classical architrave made of ashlar stone, a flat canopy on shaped consoles, and a reproduction studded door.

Inside the main range, the floors are of stone flags, and there is an open-string staircase with two stick balusters per tread and a wreathed curtail. A large room in the rear wing, which was originally a kitchen, now has parquet-block flooring and wall panelling in an early 20th-century historicist style, mirroring the design of the doorway leading into it.