Cors y Gedol Hall

Original SE range retains elements of the layout of 1576: the hall itself survives intact, with dated lateral fireplace and fine ceiling with richly moulded cross beams and counter-changing joists. The arched fireplace has date and shield, and is inscribed 'Sequere justitiam et invenias vitam' in the arch. The wall panelling may be that added by Richard Vaughan in the early C18: raised fielded panels with bolection moulding. Similar panelling in eastern room, which otherwise represents the later C16 remodelling of the original inner room, and has a contemporary fireplace with engaged columns with long capitals flanking shallow archway. The principal chamber (Kings Room) on the first floor also belongs to the late sixteenth century, though also with early C18 panelling: over its fireplace is an ornate (reset) plaster overmantel bearing twin shields of arms dated 1592, and with the initials of Gruffudd and Katherine Vaughan. The western unit of this range was rebuilt in 1660, and perhaps the staircase is substantially of this date: it has heavily moulded closed string and rail, square panelled newels (with later heraldic finials), and turned balusters. The western unit owes its architectural character to a late C18 remodelling, with delicate plasterwork decorative schemes in the Adam style. The NW wing includes a coloured plaster overmantel of the arms of Elizabeth I, perhaps reset from elsewhere in the original house. Characteristic C19 decorative detail to ball-room wing.

Large multi-period gentry house. The historical core of the house is the SE range, which was successively extended to the rear, and to the NW. Roughly coursed rubble with large stones as dressings, and slate roofs throughout, with tall stone stacks with drip-stones and cappings. Original range faces south: Externally it retains the form of a late C16 3-unit, storeyed house, though with gable end stacks in addition to the rear lateral chimney, and later storeyed porch presumably marking the position of the original entrance. To the right of the porch, 3 irregularly spaced stone mullioned and transomed windows light the hall and the inner room. Round-arched mullioned windows of 3 and 4 lights define the principal chamber above. Small hipped dormer over right-hand window breaking the eaves line and with 2-light timber casement window with round-headed lights; date stone below it with inscription in false relief; '15- GV - KV - 92'. Gable-end return has sash window with lattice glazing and a date-stone to the shaft of a shouldered chimney, 1610. Porch (1593) has good Renaissance detail including 4-centred arched doorway with drop-ended hood-mould, dated armorial panel and string course above, pedimented hood to first floor 3-light mullioned and transomed window, and cross finial at gable apex; stone mullioned and transomed windows with hood-moulds in lateral walls. Immediately to the left of the porch, on each floor a single sash window with octagonal small panes lights staircase. Date-stone with inscription 'V - 1660 - W M' records the remodelling of this range by William Vaughan. Beyond is a full-height canted bay, an addition dated 1782 with initials E.Ll.V esq., when this late C17 west unit was further reworked by Edward Lloyd Vaughan. Set back to the NW of this range, an eighteenth century and later wing extends NW, its two principal phases distinguished by differences in the character of masonry, and in the size of the windows. The first 3 bays are C18, with trans-mullioned timber windows on each floor, and similar windows in the hipped roofed storeyed porch which occupies the angle with the rear of the original range. The C19 westwards extension is of 2 bays, with wider trans-mullioned windows, which flank a small doorway on the ground floor. To the rear, the lateral stack of the original hall range is partially obscured by an irregular row of 3 gables (that to east with projecting stack), perhaps of early C18 date, with lean-to ground floor C19 additions. Small-paned hornless sash windows to first floor, and one trans-mullioned window to attic. Advanced from the western unit of the original block is a substantial wing, also of probable early C18 date, with small-paned sash windows in its east-facing elevation and gable end. Later single storeyed extension with tall gabled chimney beyond. This is abutted by a low C19 wing at the rear of the C18 NW range, probably added when this range was extended further west, and contemporary too with the long single storeyed north ball-room wing.