Gwerclas Hall

Large central stair-hall with reception rooms leading off and staircase to rear. Fine full-height open-well staircase, contemporary with construction of house. Turned wooden balusters and newel posts, with moulded wreathed handrail and decorated tread ends; there are said to be 50 steps. In front of the staircase is a wide depressed archway with fluted pilasters, cornice and moulded keystone; panelled moulded reveals. The stair-hall has a flagstone floor, laid in a diaper pattern. Plastered ceiling has cross-beam with shallow chamfer. Panelled doors with raised fields in large panelled doorcases, each bearing a classical-style frieze to the top between decorative capitals. Reception rooms not seen.

Double depth square-plan house with symmetrical 3-window front of 3 storeys with attics and cellars. Symmetrically-arranged 2-storey gabled wings, advanced to front. The main range and wings are on a rubble stone plinth, possibly related to the C16 house. Brick-fronted, but otherwise of random stone construction, under a hipped tiled roof with modillion eaves; red brick chimney stacks. The front has hornless sash windows with gauged brick heads. Central entrance with fine classical-style open porch; a cornice with triangular pediment is supported on round columns with Ionic capitals. Inside is a replaced part-glazed panelled door within a moulded doorcase. Flanking the entrance are tall round-headed sash windows. To the 1st floor are 2 tall Venetian windows, between which is a large sandstone tablet bearing a stylised painted urn in relief. It bears the date, 1767, and the initials HH LM, said to relate to H. Hughes and Margaret Lloyd. The 2nd floor has 3 x 12-pane sash windows. The fronts of the wings each have a central Venetian window to the ground floor and a pair of 12-pane sashes to the 1st floor. Blind semi-oculus to each gable. The inner side of each wing has a cavetto-moulded stone cornice. Red brick ridge stack to N wing, that to S wing taken down. The windows to the sides and rear of the house are mainly wooden casements with lead quarries or iron glazing. To the S side is a 2-light window to L of attic storey, which lights the stairs. A 2nd attic window to the R has been infilled with brick. Lighting the cellar stairs, to the L, is a 2-light stone window with ovolo-moulded mullion, probably not in situ. The rear elevation has a brick ridge stack. Very tall stairlight to R, consisting of continuous 2-light casement windows with quarries, beneath which is a late C20 boarded door leading to the ground floor. To the L are 3-light casement windows to each of the 3 main storeys, not symmetrically arranged, and with timber lintels. C20 boarded door with small light to far L of ground floor. To the centre of the basement storey is a 2-light stone window with chamfered mullion, said to have been re-used from elsewhere. W side of main block has 2 attic windows; a long service range adjoins at right angles beneath (cross ref.) The S side of the S wing is roughcast and has no openings. A gable with stack was added c1900, the original brick ridge stack having been removed. Its W gable end has a 3-light window to each storey. The N side of the N wing faces into a courtyard of outbuildings (cross ref.).