Site Record

Built between 1861-66 to the design of Sir G G Scott, (1811-78) architect, for H R Sandbach of Liverpool. Scott was amongst the most important architects of the Gothic Revival and a proponent of the Gothic style in domestic architecture, although he built comparatively few houses. Hafodunos is the only example of his domestic work in Wales.

A single storey Gothic Revival style gatehouse, T-shaped in plan. Built of red brick with diapers of darker bricks, sandstone dressings and band courses, and Welsh slate gabled roofs with slate ridges. There is a four-shaft blue brick chimney stack.
The south elevation facing the drive has a gable with a canted bay window with its own gable. The central window in the bay has two trefoil-headed lights with a central colonette and plate tracery with blind quatrefoil under a two-centred arch with hood mould. The porch to the east has a double arcade of two-centred arches.
The east elevation facing the road has two gables and windows with two-centred arches, with the taller north gable having a 3-light window with colonettes and blind plate tracery, the south gable having a 2-light window with stone mullion and lintels under a tympanum of diagonal dark blue and red tiling.
The west elevation has one gable with 3-light window with stone mullions and lintels under a tiled tympanum and 2-centred arch. The adjoining wing to the south has a 2-light window with stone lintels and a mullion. The gable parapets have sandstone copings and kneelers.

(Source; Cadw listing database) S Fielding RCAHMW 02/08/2005