Tyn-Y-Rhos Hall

Tyn-y-Rhos Hall is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from 1711. It was remodelled for Edward and Alice Phillips, incorporating an earlier building, and has undergone later additions and alterations. The structure is timber frame, brick, and uncoursed limestone rubble, with slate roofs. The front of the house features four gables, with the right-hand gable being wider and likely representing the oldest surviving section. It has two storeys plus an attic to the cross-wing. The facade is arranged with a 1:1:1:2 bay pattern; late 19th-century three-light wooden mullioned windows are set within moulded stone surrounds on the first floor, while similar mullioned and transomed windows appear on the ground floor of the right gable. A late 19th-century canted bay window is located in the middle of the three left gables, which also feature imitation angle quoins and late 19th-century cusped bargeboards with pointed finials; similar bargeboards and a finial are present on the right gable. The main entrance is situated in the third gable from the left, leading through a boarded door in a moulded wood surround, under a late 20th-century open lean-to porch supported by 19th-century fluted Doric columns, reportedly salvaged from demolished houses in Liverpool. A four-panel door with a pedimented hood incorporating reused 17th-century decorative panelling – including carvings of sea monsters – is found on the left gable; a similar half-glazed door with a pedimented hood is present on the centre of the right gable. A prominent external lateral stack on the right gable features three attached and rebated yellow brick shafts with toothed capping, alongside a subsidiary external lateral brick stack to the right and an infilled window on the first floor to the left. Rendered 19th-century stacks with paired and rebated yellow brick shafts and toothed capping are located in the valleys between the two left gables and between the two right gables. A moulded datestone, reading "P / EA / 1711" (Edward and Alice Phillips), is positioned directly below the attic window on the right gable. The interior reveals significant 19th-century remodelling, but retains reused 17th-century decorative panelling, including grotesque figures and other carvings (some possibly brought from elsewhere), particularly in fireplaces and doors. An 18th-century staircase with turned balusters also features reused 17th-century decorative panelling to the dado. The interior boasts chamfered ceiling beams – some boxed in – to both floors, and wide-boarded oak floorboards on the first floor. The roof of the right gable has raking struts from tie beams to principal rafters and incorporates several reused timbers.