Llanarth Court

Llanarth Court is an 18th-century country house, largely constructed of unpainted stucco with low slate hipped roofs and stucco corniced stacks. The main facades face north and south and feature heavy dentilled cornices above the ground floor and at roof level, below shallow parapets. A moulded sill course runs along the second floor level. Windows have moulded architraves; the ground floor has French windows with top-lights, the first floor has long cross-windows, and the upper floor has square casement pairs.

The north entrance front has five bays and a slightly projected centre and ends, with panelled parapets; the central parapet is more elaborate and stepped at its centre. Ground floor windows are each topped with cornices, and the central three bays project with channelled rustication. An arched window with a keystone flanks the arched doorway, which has ornamental ironwork in the form of the letter 'A'. The doorway has a triple key, and a fine scrolled iron railing extends above.

The south garden front has seven bays and projects at the centre and ends. A full-height Ionic portico is attached centrally, with full-height bows at each end. Sandstone steps lead to the centre of the portico and the two bows. The portico has heavy channelled piers to the ground floor, an entablature above, then four large Ionic columns with an entablature and pediment. First-floor windows have curved iron balconies, and the outer bows have paired Ionic columns to the ground floor and an entablature. Panelled curved parapets cap the bows.

To the east, set lower due to the ground’s slope, is a two-storey service block with a basement. A two-bay, two-storey link connects this to the main house, and a two-one-two-bay service range features an advanced, pedimented centre with channelled angle piers, a cornice, and a parapet on each side. A platband separates the floors and channelled basement. The windows are small-paned sashes, with a tripartite window in the centre bay. The north front of this block is four bays, with sashes, a cornice, and a parapet.

Interior spaces appear largely from the 19th century, although remnants of a late 18th-century house may survive in the upper rooms, and earlier features exist in the cellars. The front hall has a triple arch from the porch, double arches on each side, and a fine screen dated 1627, originally from Tre-owen (proposed to be returned to Treowen in 1999), placed between two arches. A Neo-Jacobean fireplace and overmantel are also present. A stair hall leads through arches to the right, to an open-well stair rising the full height of the hall, with scrolled tread ends and cast-iron balusters. The library, on the garden front, has two Ionic white marble columns and pilasters to screen, a moulded cornice, and a painted roundel in the ceiling. A large Renaissance-style marble fireplace, bookcases with cupboards, and plaster panels complete the room. Mahogany double doors, framed to match the ceiling cornice, are also noteworthy.