Dyserth Hall

At the corner of Ffordd Talargoch and Dyserth Road. Stone-walled forecourt with iron gate and rails; stone-walled drive from road. Garden to S and W, farmyard (now converted to domestic units) to N.

A gentry house early associated with the Hughes family, probably of late C16 origin and formerly known as Plâs-yn-Dyserth. Dyserth Hall passed from the Hughes family to the Plymouth estate, as the house of a considerable farm, with its farmyard to the north side centred on a very large barn. Later it was in the estate of the Rt Hon Robert Henry Clive, under whom in 1839 the house and farm were recorded as the tenancy of Pierce J Parry. It was associated with the Talargoch Mines, and usually occupied by the mine captains.

The front range is the oldest part, with lateral chimneys to rear (west). It is dated by the crow-stepped south gable, a type fashionable before 1600; also in the south gable wall at attic level and at the left of the ground storey of the east-facing front elevation there are walled-up Tudor windows of two and three lights respectively.

The house has been enlarged at the rear on two occasions, producing conjoined rear wings, the older being that to the south. The house was re-fronted in the C18, the slight asymmetry of the elevation (allowing greater space for the kitchen at right) suggesting early in that century; the northern rear wing may be of the same date. Considerable alteration is evident in the masonry of the front elevation, where a ground-storey Tudor window and an upper window left of the porch have been blocked; also the masonry of the right-hand third of the elevation is in an inferior technique. The present fenestration of the front range is C18, replacing Tudor windows. Before this alteration the south gable also had a Tudor attic window; an C18 heightening of the main rooms probably led to the loss of occupiable attic rooms. The porch is probably C19.