Wiln House

Cadw's description

Location

On the S side of Main Street some 40m W of its E junction with East Back, opposite Hamilton Terrace.

History

Town house, early C19 external appearance but thought to date from late 1760s. The house is a storey taller than No 97 but of even height with No 101 to right.

Exterior

Terraced house, painted stucco with slate close-eaved roof hipped to right. Renewed red brick right end stack. Three storeys and cellar, two-window range. Brick dentilled eaves. Window openings with C19 quarter-round stopped mouldings (similar to no 115). early C19 hornless sash windows, 16-pane to ground floor right, 12-pane to first floor and 9-pane to top floor. Tooled stone sills.
Ground floor plinth with cellar vent to right. Arched doorway to left with timber doorcase: open pediment on consoles over thin panelled piers, fluted band at impost level, and entablature blocks under pediment. Earlier C19 fanlight with tracery of marginal glazing bars, centre roundel, and four small roundels in margins. Six-panel door of four sunk panels and two flush panels with reeded borders. Bootscraper.
Large rear SW wing with red brick W side stack and some slate-hanging on W wall. Basement and three storeys, with conservatory at ground floor level with arched side windows, arched door within, and 12-pane sash each floor above.

Interior

Entrance hall to left with fanlight with intersecting tracery. Six-panel door on right to front room. Early C19 staircase behind front room, four flights up with straight balusters, scrolled tread ends, ramped rail and bulbous turned newels. Rear room has undercut leaf cornice and scrolled ceiling border. Six-panel door and shutters to French window. Ground floor rear added sun-lounge with arched C19 window with intersecting tracery. Basement level kitchen at rear.

Reason for designation

Included as a well-preserved Georgian town house with surviving interior detail.