Stable-courtyard ranges including staff houses at Llangoed Hall

Cadw's description

Location

Located to the NW of Llangoed Hall, with independent driveway off the main entrance.

History

Built in 1912 by Clough Williams-Ellis as part of his remodelling of the main house.

Exterior

A group of buildings forming, with walls and hedges, a stable yard with a formal central opening on the S side, and a service access on the W. The group comprises a main range of carriage houses on the N side, returning with stables on the E. A 3-storey staff lodging house lies at the W end of the N range. Two gatepiers define the yard to S.

The Lodging House, built and still used as such, is of rubble sandstone with small quoins. Three storeys, 3 x 1 bays, with a further bay to the N forming an ''L''-plan, with tower and hipped part-octagonal entrance in the SE re-entrant angle. Part glazed door. Three light timber windows with applied leads set near to face of wall. The walls rise to a parapet, covering the pitched roof which rises as small gables on 2 sides. The square tower has 2-stage sprocketed tiled roof of mansard form, surmounted by a wind vane in the form of a salmon. Tall diagonal linked brick stacks.

The carriage house range is of 5 bays. Colourwashed brick, with red tile roof. Boarded doors, the centre defined by squat pilasters carrying a pediment with a tympanum having a segmental arch. Roof is hipped over the pediment and rises to a central bell and clock tower, with a 4-way pediment carried on Tuscan columns and finished with a copper clad base for a central tall vase terminal. Clock and bell absent. At the E end a flat canopy on stone piers joins this range to the E range of stables, also of rubble with a hipped tile roof.

Enclosing stone walls and gate piers similar to those of the Laundry Yard.

Reason for designation

Included as of group value with the Grade II* Llangoed Hall, and as of special interest as an early work by Clough Williams-Ellis.