Pentre Madoc

Pentre Madoc is a farmhouse dated 1682, with some remodeling in the mid and late 18th century and an extension from the late 19th or early 20th century. It is constructed of red brick, with narrower bricks used for the 17th-century part, and features slate and machine tile roofs. The original house was likely a T-plan, with a gabled staircase projection at the rear that was lengthened and widened to the left in the mid-18th century. The front wall was largely rebuilt in the late 18th century and extended to the left in the late 19th or early 20th century.

The building is two storeys high with an attic and has a three-window front, featuring slightly unevenly spaced, stepped horned 6-paned sashes with segmental heads. There is a central entrance with a segmental-headed 6-panel door, where the middle panels have been glazed, beneath a 20th-century gabled timber porch. There are integral end stacks to the right and another to the left at the junction between the late 18th-century part and the 20th-century addition. A leaded latticed fixed-light window is found in an infilled pointed doorway on the back wall, with a similar window on the left side of the rear range, which lights the staircase.

Inside, the main feature of interest is the dog-leg staircase that rises from the ground floor to the attic. It has a carved panel on the first half-landing with the inscription E 16. The staircase includes twisted balusters, an open string, a moulded handrail, and newels with carved finials and pendants. The staircase turns in two directions to the second half-landing. The ground floor and the main range on the first floor have chamfered ceiling beams. A door on the first floor features reused 17th-century rectangular oak panelling. The main range has a queen-strut roof in three bays, while the rear range has a wide bay. The staircase is a notable example of a type typically found in earlier buildings. A late 19th-century brick lean-to attached to the rear of the rear range is not of special architectural interest.