Nyth Aderyn

Entry from W side into small lobby with half-glazed double doors and then into rear stair hall, with the two principal original rooms to the right, overlooking sea, a drawing-room to SW, the original dining room to SE, and the study in rear NW overlooking the entry. A new dining room was added beyond the original one, c1888. The kitchen and servants hall were originally in the basement. The stair hall has fine staircase in 4 flights with big turned balusters and fluted bottom newel with ball finial. Pulvinated string and ramped thick rail, early C18 style. Fine heavy panelled doors in bolection-moulded surrounds. In the main rooms the window bays have surrounds with fluted pilasters on panelled bases, and the original dining room has a deep inglenook on N wall with flat lintel and similar pilaster framing. New dining-room has segmental arch over E window bay, and N fireplace with painted timber, earlier C18 style, chimneypiece, white marble surround to grate. SW drawing-room has door to balcony from bay window, fireplace removed. Steps to basement in NE rear added when dining-room was added, with turned balusters. First floor rooms have 2-panel doors.

House, red plain tiles to roofs and first floor walls, over painted stucco ground floor and basement. T-plan, the roofs gable-ended to front range, hipped to rear, with moulded timber eaves cornice. Roof tiles have been painted in a water-repellent coating. Basement, 2 storeys and attic. Windows are generally small-paned, casements in pairs or threes, the principal ones with top-lights, in large corniced bay windows on front, or smaller lights on the tile-hung walls with moulded cornices and fluted sides. There were very tall brick chimneys, two on rear-wall gables behind the front range and one on the centre of the ridge, removed in 1967. Tile-hung upper floor with tiling swept out to shelter a balcony on the seaward front and the main entry on the W side of the rear wing. Moulded timber cornice at base of tile-hanging. S front has 3 storeys as there is a full-height basement, with 3-storey canted bays each side of balcony at ground floor level and 2 small cross-windows surrounds at first floor. The bays are 5-sided with cornices over each floor, 1-1-3-1-1 lights with top-lights to main floors, the ground floor windows slightly longer, and 12-pane sashes to basement. Stucco below sills. The 3-bay centre balcony has turned balusters to rail with square posts carrying 2 turned bulbous columns, with capitals. Shallow elliptical arches to each bay. Centre door and casement pair to right onto balcony, slate paving. Basement has 2 8-pane sashes and moulded sill course. W end is tile-hung, not interrupted by the main cornice which is stopped at SW corner. Triple casement to attic, windowless first floor. Stuccoed ground floor has inserted C20 window. Rear N gable of removed chimney stack and small dormer to left. Rear wing is lower with broad hipped N gable and big hipped N end eaves dormer. W side has a 3-light flat-topped square bay with tiled apron to left and a small casement-pair under eaves to right, tile-hanging swept out over a ground floor 3-light square bay with top-lights, and doorway to right. Panelled and part-glazed door in moulded surround with scrolled panel above. White timber railings to slate bridge over basement area. End wall has 3-light to first floor, and 1-light and similar 3-light to dormer above. Cambered-headed 2-light to stuccoed ground floor. E end of main range has 3-light to attic, and stuccoed dining-room addition with hipped roof. S side of addition has long cross-window and basement 3-light. Big E 5-sided 2-storey timber bay with cornice. NE angle has additions presumably to ease access to new dining room, stucco 2-storey.