Middle Hengoed Farmhouse

Middle Hengoed Farmhouse is a 17th-century timber-framed farmhouse. The external walls are of rubble stone and cinder blocks, covered with a pebble-dashed render. The roof covering has been removed, but was formerly corrugated metal. The building has two storeys and two rooms on each floor, with a large hearth to the north-eastern gable end.

The south-east flank has two two-light casement windows on each floor, with hardwood surrounds likely dating to the 1970s; a doorway is located at the far right of the ground floor. The south-west gable end has render to the lower portion and corrugated metal covering to the gable. The north-west flank wall has a two-light casement window with a hardwood surround, similar to those on the south-east, on the ground floor at the left. The north-east gable end was formerly attached to a later portion of the house which has now been demolished, and has a plastered lower wall with a doorway to the left.

Internally, the trusses to each gable end consist of two cruck blades joined by a collar and yoke. One blade of the north-eastern truss is exposed but shows no clear signs of weathering or soot blackening. The south-western wall is of rubble stone to its lower portion, but cruck blades are visible at first-floor level. The middle wall contains small framed walling, substantial timbers, angle braces connecting to the tie beam, and angle struts above the collar. Timbers are evident within the north-western flank wall, and there are two ranks of substantial purlins to the roof on this side. The south-eastern flank wall has been rebuilt in rubble stone up to the level of the central truss tie beam, and extended in brick above, indicating a possible 18th-century rebuilding of the lower wall followed by a 19th-century raising of the roof. The ground floor has heavy, axial central ceiling beams with closely-set, substantial joists. A winder staircase of 19th or 20th-century date is set against the western side of the dividing wall, and appears to mask a former doorway between the ground floor rooms, which has a cambered head. The eastern ground-floor room has a large fireplace opening across most of the north-east gable wall with a chamfered bressumer above. The ground-floor flooring has been replaced by a concrete raft in the 20th century, and areas of the rubble stone plinth were rebuilt at the same time.