Llanfair Grange (also known as Plas Llanfair)

Llanfair Grange (also known as Plas Llanfair) is a substantial house combining a late-Georgian classical front block with an older house behind, set within a service courtyard formed by adjoining ranges to the south and west, which splay inwards at the east end.

The main north-facing block is three storeys tall with smooth rendered elevations, probably over stone, and natural slate roofs hidden behind a parapet. The front is symmetrical across five bays and executed in scribed stucco with channel rustication to the ground floor. A projecting pedimented bay marks the centre, while a cornice, blocking course, band courses over the ground floor, and an advanced plinth beneath each window provide additional classical detail. The broad central porch, now fitted with a square-headed entrance with moulded architrave and Doric columns in antis, originally had a broad round-headed opening with a keystone, as shown in old photographs. Round-headed side windows with multi-pane glazing flank this entrance, and the inner doorway similarly features an arched head with half-glazed doors and flanking windows. Sash windows of six over six panes light all floors, taller on the ground floor. Above the porch is an early twentieth-century four-light transomed casement window with pilastered architrave. At both ends of the front, the facade is set back at the corners and returned for one bay on either side, including tripartite ground floor windows with pilastered architrave.

Behind this front block the house is mainly two storeys. The three-plus-one-window east side is similarly stuccoed and features twinned arched chimney stacks. Most windows here are later cross-frame windows with cornices and architraves. The three-window section has a central classical-style round-arched doorcase, while the single-window bay to the left, advanced and finished with quoins, retains a six over six pane sash window with blind box at ground floor. This bay forms the end of the hipped roof. The four-window south range, cement rendered and hipped, features similar glazing with French windows and a cut-down lateral chimney.

A two-window courtyard range with hipped roof steps forward to the west at a skewed angle. Southwest of this, linked by outside steps, stand the stables and coach-house, colour-washed rubble frontage facing the courtyard. Their outer side has a dog-legged roof profile. Windows and doors are mostly sashes and casements over cambered-arched openings, including boarded carriage doors; the central opening has been altered to a doorway with flanking window. The courtyard elevations and rear of the house are pebbledashed with small-pane sash windows.

The entrance hall features a segmental archway and an open-well staircase with shaped tread ends, turned balusters, a panelled soffit, and a newel finial. Cornices and six-panel doors with shutters are throughout. The room to the left of the hall has an arched recess and an Adam-style fireplace, whilst the dining-room to the right contains a marbled rococo-style chimneypiece. Other rooms were not accessible at the time of inspection in June 1993.