Cwm Farmhouse

Farmhouse. Built in the late 16th century, with extensions in the early 19th century and subsequent alterations. The structure is timber framed, with late 20th-century red brick replacing the original wattle and daub infill; a red brick addition is also present. The roof is covered with plain tiles. The main hall range appears to consist of approximately two and a half framed bays, with a flush-gabled cross-wing situated to the right. The building is two storeys high, featuring fretted bargeboards, carved pendants to the gables, and a cellar beneath the hall range to the rear. The timber framing is characterized by slightly irregular square and rectangular panels, with three panels extending from the cill to the wall plate on the front of the building, and a similar number of more regular square panels on the rear. The gable of the cross-wing exhibits upper and lower collars with V-struts from the former, and V-struts from the collar combined with double-purlin ends to the left gable end of the hall range. Late 19th and 20th-century casement windows are present, with two on the ground floor of the hall range, one positioned directly below the eaves to the right; one window on each floor of the cross-wing, which also has a boarded door to the left. A red brick ridge stack is situated to the right of the centre of the hall range. The 19th-century addition features four late 19th-century casement windows directly below the eaves, and three contemporary segmental-headed casement windows on the ground floor – two to the left and one to the right – of a segmental-headed boarded door located in the third bay from the left. There is a red brick ridge stack with dentilled capping to the left of the centre, and an integral end stack to the right. The interior was not inspected, but is likely to contain features of interest; the hall to the left has two chamfered beams, while the parlour to the left contains two chamfered beams with lamb's-tongue stops, and a winder staircase adjoining an open fireplace with a chamfered arched bressummer. The first floor includes an old plank door with strap hinges and 17th-century panelled doors with butterfly hinges to the right; a carved finial is present on a late 16th-century newel post. Queen-post trusses with trenched purlins are also visible on the first floor. This is an early example of a lobby-entry house for this area.