Glanpaith

Hall has small ceiling rose, bracketed cornice, timber flooring and 6-panel doors. NW morning room has moulded cornice, marble fireplace and split-level panelled shutters, with corresponding panels beneath window to recess. Similar cornice and fireplace to SW dining Room. French windows have panelled shutters to sides and panelling over. SE drawing room has similar panels and shutters to French windows. Marble fireplace with fleur-de-lys motif. Elaborate decorative stucco cornice with acanthus and water-leaf and ceiling border of rich scroll with rosettes. Staircase of 1934 in unpainted timber with ramped handrail, open treads and twisted paired balusters like that at Bryneithyn Hall. Lower range containing kitchen, pantry and scullery all recently refurbished. Service bells remain. Moulded cornice and foliate rose to upper landing ceiling. Bedrooms have timber fireplaces and moulded cornice. Windows to stair half-landing are leaded with coloured glazing and side margins. Rear wing has 4-panel doors.

Smaller country house, late Georgian style, near square plan in unpainted stucco with low-pitched pyramidal slate deep-eaved roof and tall red brick stacks, to end walls of garden front (one therefore on right roof slope of entrance front) and left of entrance front. Rusticated ground floor, first floor quoins and deep flat eaves. Entrance façade to W is 2-storey, 3-window range with centre columned porch, 12-pane horned sashes to ground floor and 9-pane hornless sashes above, with painted slate sills and shallow reveals. Portico on 2 stone columns standing on square plinths, with moulded bases and caps and matching square pilasters flanking entrance, plain entablature renewed 1930s partially in concrete and flat leaded roof. Two stone steps to porch, slate step to paired 2-panel half-glazed doors with rectangular overlight with inset radial tracery. S garden front is 2-window range with full height projecting bays with narrow canted sides. First floor windows are horned timber sashes, 2-4-2-pane, ground floor are full-length 3-6-3-pane the centre ones French windows. Bays have roll-moulded angles and moulded cornices. Ground floor of bays is within a painted timber veranda with leaded hipped roof and fretted eaves board with pattern of little arches with points between. Veranda is on squared thin timber posts: four to centre, a pair to each end and another pair just in from each end with latticed timbers between posts. Boarded ends with paired latticed posts each side. Slate floor and stone step. E side is 3-window in matching materials with the end chimney of the S front set to left on roof slope and a gabled dormer with 4-pane sash and wavy bargeboard on roof. Main floor openings to left are blank owing to chimney, first floor windows centre and right 9-pane sashes as on W façade, ground floor 4-pane earlier C20 horned sash to centre and to right a single opening with paired 4-pane narrow sashes. To far right is inserted narrow 8-pane horned sash with higher sill. Beneath centre window is cellar grille above coal chute opening, beneath right windows are cellar steps with cast iron C19 spearhead railing . Cellar has cambered-headed 4-pane light and boarded timber door with cambered head. Rear N has wider similar gabled dormer with paired 4-pane sashes and chimney on roof slope to right (left chimney of W front). Lower attached unpainted stucco two-storey, 3-window service range to left of W front has slate roof hipped to N, and flat eaves. Upper storey, added 1930s, has 12-pane horned timber sashes and ground floor has corresponding blank openings. Small square red brick stack on roof slope right of centre. N end has rusticated rendered first floor and colourwashed rubble ground floor with 12-pane hornless timber sash with stone voussoirs over. Single storey range running E to rear has signs of alteration, ground floor N has inserted 4-pane horned sash with brick dressings to right and C20 opening with concrete lintel to right. Roof hipped to E, stonework continuous with end of service wing. Narrow 3-sided rear NE court is flagged in slate and elevations are rendered, on W service range has 12-pane sash over wide square 8-pane kitchen window, and in SW angle to main house is added stair tower with long earlier C20 leaded-glazed sashes with margin lights one on N one on E, rear door on E. Low N range has 12-pane hornless sash left and boarded door with tiny 3-pane light over window.