Maentwlch

Maentwlch is a cottage that possibly dates from the late 17th century to the early 18th century and was extended around 1976. It is constructed of rubble and timber-frame with a stone tiled roof, featuring brick infill panels. The building has a stone end chimney with a bread oven and a detached brick shaft to the west, along with a brick end stack to the east. It is one storey with an attic and consists of three bays. The rubble base has a weathered top that extends to the cills of the upper windows. The cottage has regularly spaced 19th-century casements, with two 6-paned windows on the ground floor and two 4-paned windows in the attic. Access is provided via a 19th-century porch and a ledged door on the west gable end.

The frame features one panel high above the rubble base at the front, while the rest of the building has three panels high from the cill to the wall-plate. Inside, the two ground floor rooms have beams with cyma stop chamfers. There is a ledged door from the 18th to early 19th century leading to a cellar beneath the 20th-century extension. The floors in the 17th to 18th-century part are completely stone flagged. The building has very heavy, slightly cambered tie-beams that form an A-frame with collars. There is a small first-floor chamber on the north side of the western chimney, located roughly above the bread oven. The cottage is situated in an area influenced by Rowland Vaughan's water-works and irrigation scheme from the late 16th century, which included sluices and a "Trench Royal" introduced on the west side of the Golden Valley.