Pen-Y-Cae

Pen-y-Cae is a farmhouse, now a house, dating to the late 16th or 17th century, with later additions and alterations. It is constructed of timber framing with painted brick infill, with some rendered areas and largely rebuilt in painted brick. The roof is slate. The building has an L-shaped plan, consisting of two ranges of roughly equal length. It is one storey with an attic.

The front of the main range features vertical posts. The end truss of the roof has a cambered tie beam that has been reused as a corner post in the back wall. The fenestration is irregular. To the right of the main door, is a small, early 19th-century cast-iron casement. The door itself has later fleur-de-lys strap hinges and a 19th-century pedimented hood. A 20th-century gabled eaves dormer is immediately above the casement, with a later 20th-century casement to its right. A brown brick axial ridge stack with moulded capping stands immediately to the left of the entrance.

The projecting gabled range to the left has a 19th-century cast-iron casement to its right outer wall, with a segmental-headed opening leading to a cellar. A 19th-century casement is located on the front gable, which has a 20th-century fretted bargeboard and a dentilled floor band with an infilled segmental-headed window above. The left wall of the gabled range includes a 20th-century casement in an earlier segmental-headed opening, and a 20th-century leaded casement to the right of a 6-panel door. A 19th-century gabled porch is situated to the right of centre, and 19th-century gabled eaves dormers are located to the left and centre—the latter with a 19th-century cast-iron casement.

Inside, the timber framing, which forms square panels, is exposed along several cross walls, including one running along the axis of the house and through the front part of the gabled range. Deep-chamfered spine and cross beams are present throughout. A large stack in the left ground-floor room of the main range incorporates an inglenook fireplace with a chamfered wooden lintel and a 19th-century bread oven, along with stone steps leading to the right. The roof in the gabled range is collar and tie beam construction, with queen posts between the second and third bays from the left; it is supported by single purlins. The main range has a similar roof in two wide bays. There is no access at first-floor level between the two ranges. A single-storey, 19th- or 20th-century addition to the right of the main range is not considered to be of special architectural interest.