Cardwen And Garden Wall To Front

Cardwen is a house with a garden wall at the front, dating from the early 17th century and extended in the 18th century. It is constructed of stone rubble and has slate and asbestos slate roofs, featuring a gable end on the left and a hipped end on the right. There is a projecting rear wing with a gable end, and a stone rubble chimney stack with a brick shaft is located on the left-hand gable end. Additionally, there is a projecting stone rubble lateral chimney stack on the right side of the rear wing, along with a 20th-century brick chimney stack nearby and another brick chimney stack at the gable end of the rear wing.

The layout of the house, assessed from the exterior, suggests that the rear wing originally comprised a three-room and cross passage plan from the early 17th century, with the lower end heated by an end chimney stack and the hall heated by a lateral chimney stack. The higher end may have been rebuilt in the 18th century when a cross wing containing two rooms and a through passage was added, creating an overall 'L' shaped plan. This cross wing is set slightly back from the early 17th-century range, and the house was reoriented so that the cross wing forms the front elevation. Alternatively, the current front may represent an early 19th-century remodelling of a 17th-century or earlier range, with the lower 17th-century end serving as a rear service wing. An outshut was added in the early 19th century at the angle between the 17th and 18th-century ranges.

The house is two storeys high with a regular three-window front. The ground floor features a four-pane sash window to the left and a double four-pane sash window to the right, both with timber lintels. In the centre, there is a six-panelled door with a slate hipped hood. The first floor has three 12-pane sash windows without horns. The rear 17th-century wing has asymmetrical fenestration that was altered in the 19th century, along with a 19th-century stair window. The outshut includes gauze-covered dairy windows. The garden wall at the front is made of stone rubble and has an entrance in the side wall at the higher end. An interior inspection was not possible.