Treworgan Manor is a Grade II* listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 May 1952. A C17 Gentry house.

Treworgan Manor

WRENN ID
inner-tallow-elm
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Monmouthshire
Country
Wales
Date first listed
1 May 1952
Type
Gentry house
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Gentry house, c1700 front block of red brick, with slate roofs and two brick stacks on rear wall. Formal 5-window, 2-storey front with raised brick band, timber eaves cornice, and 9 timber cross-windows with brick voussoirs to flat heads. Centre double doors of 10 raised and fielded panels in a lugged timber architrave. Marks of a large pediment or gable on wall above doorway. N gable end has similar window to each floor and a 4-pane small sash window to the loft, S gable is rendered with first floor and loft windows, and 2 added buttresses. Almost detached NW service wing at right angles in similar brick, with end stacks, that to E larger. Two-storey, 3-window N front with similar band and small 2-light ovolo-moulded timber mullion windows above casement pairs with centre door. Similar mullion window to E end wall over similar casement pair. Nogged brickwork to chimneys. Rear SW parallel range of c1600 is rendered, gabled to S, irregular casement pair windows on S stepped to follow stair within..

Two room front range with centre passage, hall to N, bolection-moulded panelling to parlour to S including integral fireplace surround. Above the fireplace and inset into a frame is a modern copy of an oil painting of the house set in formal gardens of 1660. The original is held at St Fagan's Museum. Large raised and fielded 6-panelled doors with lugged architrave. Room to the N has 5-panelled door to side hall. To the rear in c1600 wing is a spiral oak mast staircase rising from cellar to loft with panelling to the walls, the steps replaced with board risers and treads in C17. 15" diameter at base. Planked and ledged doors with strap hinges. Said to have a barrel vaulted cellar under with outside door enlarged for cider barrels.

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