Exterior
House of 2 storeys with attics and cellars; comprising a main S block with two rear wings; a stair block to the E, and a larger wing to W, which formed the original house and became the service wing when the S wing was built. A former stable range to the N (lying parallel to the S block) has been attached to the W wing; overall the plan forms an approximate 'U' shape. Walls of limestone and grit rubble (those to the S wing laid roughly to courses), with some gritstone dressings. Roofs of thin slates. The S front is a 2-storey, 8-window range with the door offset to the right (windows arranged 5-2). Slate copings, tall gable-end chimneys of grit ashlar with chamfered cappings; similarly detailed ridge chimney offset to left (W), marking extent of entrance hall. Reset square-headed dressed sandstone doorway with chamfered sandstone jambs with broach-stops. Over the door is a reset sandstone panel bearing: [Or] a lion rampant reguardant [sable] (Gwaethfoed for Morgan) and the inscription TANGNEFEDD IR TY HWN (over) H M 1626. There is a second reset gritstone panel above, and to the left of, the door reading: 16 (cross) 25 . The door is early C20, boarded and studded with two narrow lights and prominent hinges. Windows are replacement 4-pane sashes with flat voussoir heads in gritstone ashlar, with reduced heads to the 1st floor. The stair block, to the E end of the rear (N) wall, has a basement with half-story over, and attic. Rubble walls (of poorer materials than the main S block) and slate roof with flat-roofed dormer window. Ashlar gritstone chimney with chamfered capping. E elevation: 3 windows to half-landing, with roughly-dressed voussoir heads, 3 internally splayed slit windows to basement. W elevation: steps lead down from N, to broad boarded door in centre of range (to basement) with dressed voussoir head; slit to R (N). Formerly with 3 windows to 1st floor, with only that to the right remaining unblocked; a round-headed window with Gothic glazing bars. Flat-roofed dormer window to right (S) with 12-pane sash windows.
The W, service, wing (the original C17 house) is a 2-storey, 6-window range, principal elevation facing W, with tall grit ashlar ridge stack with chamfered capping to the right (S) of the 2nd window from the left (N) end. The W elevation ground floor has 2 x 12-pane sash windows, with slate sills, to the left (N) end, a blocked doorway (with flat voussoir ashlar head) to their right and a modern glazed doorway with flanking panes to the right end; there is a single-storey lean-to built against the far right end of the wall which extends around the NW corner of the S wing. The 1st floor has 5 x 12-pane sash windows with slate sills to the left, 3rd window from left with brick jambs, and a 6-pane sash inserted at the far right end, above the lean-to. The rear (E) elevation has a full height, slightly advanced, gabled block at the left (S) end which is linked to the E rear wing by a lean-to; there is a 12-pane sash in the 1st floor N wall. The ground floor of the service wing has 2 x 12-pane sash windows to the right (N) end, the 1st floor has a single 12-pane sash to the left; there is a hipped roofed dormer with a 4-pane casement window to the right end.
At the N end of the W, service, wing is a gabled roofed linking block, each elevation has modern half-glazed doors with side windows.
The former stable range which now forms the N wing, parallel to the S wing, is built of local rubble; slate roof with tiled ridge and copings, grit ashlar ridge stack with chamfered capping slightly offset to E end, and brick stack with shaped capping to NW corner. The principal elevation faces N, the 1st floor has 3 gabled dormers breaking the eavesline, the central dormer over a doorway reached by external stone stairs, the flanking dormers with 12-pane sash windows. The ground floor 2x small-paned casements to the left (E) end, a smaller casement window to right of the stairs and an ornate cast-iron ventilation grille to the right end. The right (E) gable return has a 12-pane sash window with segmental stone head and slate sill to each storey, the left (W) gable return has a 1st floor window of paired, 4-pane lights. The rear elevation has a modern doorway to the right (W) end, a 12-pane sash above with 9-pane sash to the left.