Castell Madoc

Porch with doors into late C19 hall and small SE room. Hall has panelled dado and panelled ceiling. Two arches on W wall, one blank, one open into main axial hall, which has two similar arches on N to late C19 open well stairs. Stairs have moulded string, pine balustrades and turned newels with ball-finials. S rooms have mid to later C19 detail. Massive depth of chimney between SW room and dining-room to E. SW room has early C20 chimneypiece, mid to later C19 moulded cornice and C19 bookshelves. Dining-room has C19 cornice and marble chimneypiece with roundels in top corners. Centre ground floor room on W has some C18 fielded panels in window reveals. Beneath is C17 or earlier stone-vaulted wine-cellar with C17 door. Service stair at rear E of W range. First floor landing has three arches. Glazed C19 lantern over lobby between main stair and W service stair. Length of C17 balustrading to straight flight of service stairs running parallel to a thick wall that may be the original back wall of the W range. Closed string, turned thick balusters, square newel with Ionic cap under Jacobean style finial. First floor W room has Victorian neo-Tudor chimneypiece, but C18 fielded panelled window reveals.

Large painted roughcast and stucco classical mansion with slate hipped roof and roughcast corniced stacks. Deep eaves. Three storeys, L-plan with long eight-bay S front, five-bay W side, and two-bay E end entrance front. S front has big mid C19 pedimented projection in seventh bay, an addition, with the bay beyond. Top floor has square windows, 6-pane to six windows to left of projection, one 4-pane to right. First floor has plain four-pane sashes, only that to right with moulded C19 architrave. Ground floor has long C19 French windows to six left bays, and a 4-pane sash in moulded architrave to right of projection. Stone plinth, stone sills. Projection is as broad as two window bays. Deep-eaved pediment with roundel window, first floor with long alternating quoins, 4-pane sash in shouldered pedimented architrave, and sill band; chanelled ground floor with radiating voussoirs to big moulded arched French window with radiating-bar fanlight. Massive square ridge stack two bays from left and small stack just forward of ridge, to left of pedimented projection. W side of five bays is similar, hipped, with corniced ridge stack. Stone plinth. Stone sills. Six-pane hopper upper windows, blank in fourth bay, four-pane first floor sashes, centre one cambered headed with 1588 curved triangular stone plaque 'WPM ty nuedd TP 1588', blank fourth window. Ground floor has four long casement-pair windows, the second not aligned with windows above, and French window in fifth bay. N gable end is hipped with massive roughcast square external chimneybreast and tall corniced shaft, breaking eaves. Roof has shallower eaves to left of chimney. Two broad raised bands each side of chimney breast. Single-storey C19 addition to N with tall thin brick N stack, parallel rage to rear of main range to left with roof hipped to E and roughcast ridge stack. The E end has arched stair window in brick surround. E entrance front of two bays, c. 1880. Hipped roof, two attic windows, two plate glass first floor sash windows in architraves, and big pedimented porch, with plate glass sash in architrave to right. Porch has paired angle pilasters and moulded-arched doorway with pilasters paired in depth. Hardwood fanlight with radiating bars over paired half-glazed hardwood doors.