Maesmawr Hall

Maesmawr Hall is a timber-framed manor house in Caersws, Wales, featuring decorative curved braces and projecting upper floors on all sides of the structure. The building comprises connected sections from different periods, with the oldest part dating to the 1600s and a later addition from the Victorian era.

The present structure was rebuilt in 1663 by Edward Davies on the site of an earlier building. Later in the 1870s, architect W.E. Nesfield added significant extensions that shaped the house into its current form.

The Wainscot Room displays small square panels from the 1600s with period furniture, showing how wealthy Welsh landowners decorated their homes at that time. The details reveal what kinds of furnishings and finishes mattered to families of status in rural Wales.

The house functions today as a hotel with guest rooms in both the historic section featuring exposed wooden beams and a newer wing with larger spaces. Visitors should know that the older parts of the building have low ceilings and narrow passages that give a genuine sense of the original structure.

The house features a nine-section ceiling supported by decorative beams with carved patterns, a crafted detail that visitors often overlook when viewing the rooms. These beam works demonstrate the skilled woodworking that mattered during the period of construction.