Llanrumney Hall PH

Interior has main rooms either side of entrance which leads to a large open stair well, part of which has been turned into a bar. Room to left retains moulded plasterwork ceiling, reputedly C16, probably repaired, incorporating lozenges, hexagons, fleur-de-lys and Tudor roses; these shapes are echoed in mouldings on the window shutters and soffit, and on a panelled dado; Tudor-arched but not original fireplace; parquet floor. Room to right also has moulded plaster panelled ceiling of different design but again incorporating Tudor rose motif; also with a decorative cornice and strapwork-style band below; heavily reed-moulded architrave to windows with panelled shutters and soffit; renewed fireplace. Staircase hall has a metal grate of probably c 1900, narrow coloured tiles in herringbone design, with heraldic mosaic plaques, and coffered mantelpiece; on the wall is a plaque unveiled in 1988 to mark the 300th anniversary of the death of Capt Henry Morgan and his association with Llanrumney and Llanrumney Hall. Grand dark polished wood staircase with decorative finials to the newel posts and turned balusters rises to a landing with the balusters continuing round the 3 other sides of the open well. Landing is lit by a 3-bay gabled roof light supported by bolted king-post trusses resting on face corbels; doors off landing retain moulded surrounds with panelled reveals and soffits, also shutters, from the earlier C19 remodelling. RCAHMW survey of 1981 reports a dressed stone doorway with 4-centred head and plain chamfered jambs reset in a late C18/early C19 barrel-vaulted cellar.

Former mansion house now a public house. Of rendered stone with hipped mostly Welsh slate roof with overhanging eaves with boarded soffit and double-bracketed eaves; very narrow stone ridge stacks with narrow cornice. Main entrance frontage of 3 storeys faces S; side elevation W of 3 storeys has single storey rear wing, a skittle alley; side elevation E has lower 2 storey hipped roof wing stepped back with lean-to and single storey hipped-roofed billiard room at front. Main frontage has a 5-window range of Gothick glazed cambered-headed sashes with shallow reveals and narrow sills, 6-pane to upper floor and 12-pane to the first floor, and larger 12-pane to the ground floor with the sills at plinth level. Central flat-roofed portico with two pairs of Doric columns at front supporting an entablature with pilasters to rear. The W elevation, facing road, has similar windows with Gothick glazing, 3 on top floor, 4 on first floor , 2 on ground floor, one of which is tri-partite, with doorway end left; attached is the single storey skittle alley which has 4 windows with replaced glazing. The E 2-storey extension has margin-glazing, the attached single storey billiard room has wooden mullions and transoms, all windows cambered-arched. RCAHMW survey 1981 refers to first-floor window on N side with 2 square-headed lights, sunk-chamfered dressings, plain hoodmould and adjacent large chimney projection; these together with some thick walls date from the early post-medieval building.