Hansel Including Front Garden Area Wall

Hansel is a house, formerly a farmhouse, consisting of an early to mid-17th century remodelled structure built over an earlier dwelling, extended during the 20th century. The building is constructed of dressed slate rubble, painted at the rear, with a slate roof featuring gabled ends. Stone rubble axial and gable end chimney stacks have weathered set-offs and tapered tops.

The original plan follows a 2-room and through passage layout. The lower end to the left is heated by a gable end stack, whilst the hall to the right contains an axial stack backing onto the passage, with the chamber above heated from a gable end stack. At the front of the hall stands a wide projecting bay with an integral stair turret to its left. A truss buried within the back of the hall's axial stack indicates the hall was likely open to the roof originally, with the floor and stack inserted subsequently. The hall's front wall and integral stair turret were built forward as part of this remodelling. Date stone evidence on the lower end chimney stack records improvements made in 1833. During the 20th century, a wing was constructed onto the front of the lower left end, linking the house with an adjacent outbuilding to the north, and a single-storey wing was added to the rear of the high end.

The exterior presents a 2-storey asymmetrical north front with a large gable to the right, an integral stair turret at centre, and a doorway to the left featuring an elliptically arched wooden frame with an old plank and studded door with scratch moulding and covermould. A later porch canopy occupies the recess between the stair turret and the 20th-century wing. The ground floor right contains an early 19th-century tripartite sash window (4:12:4 panes) with a 19th-century 3-light casement above in the gable with glazing bars. At centre is a 19th-century 2-light casement with glazing bars lighting the stair turret. The asymmetrical 4-window rear elevation comprises mostly 19th-century 2-light casements with glazing bars, a 19th-century glazed and panelled door at centre, and a 20th-century bay window to the right with French casements. A 20th-century single-storey wing projects from the left. The lower eastern gable end displays a slate plaque on the stack inscribed "Rebuilt 1833 by Tucker," referring to the chimney rebuilding, and includes a small circa 19th-century outshut. The high western gable end features a rebate for a plaque on the chimney and a doorway at higher ground level to the first floor room with a 20th-century plank door and small slate hood.

The front garden area wall, probably late 18th or 19th century, is constructed of local slate rubble with slate capping, rounded pier at the right-hand corner and square gate-pier on the left. A flight of steps inside the wall serves as a mounting block and loading platform. The wall encloses a small rectangular garden.

Interior features include slate chamfered cornices on the back of the stack and lower side partition in the through passage. The hall contains a chamfered cross-beam and half-beam of high end with bar stops; the cross-beam stops at the stair turret and does not extend into the hall bay. The hall fireplace has a chamfered wooden lintel with bar stops. The brick-lined end wall of the hall features a chamfered timber lintel with run-out stops. A doorway in the hall at the bottom of the newel stair has a segmental chamfered wooden lintel. The stairs are wooden and relatively wide. The lower end room fireplace has a round back and new lintel, with a china-cupboard to the right featuring shaped shelves. On the first floor, the hall chamber fireplace has a chamfered timber lintel with straight-cut stops on a shaped wooden corbel at the right-hand end. To the right of the fireplace stands the foot of a large raised cruck with truncated threaded purlin. The lower end chamber contains a small fireplace with round-arch slate-on-edge lintel.

The roof structure includes a truss buried in the lower side of the hall stack with mortice and tenoned collar and threaded purlins continuing over the passage bay; the apex of this truss is missing and appears not to be smoke-blackened. The truss over the centre of the hall and that against the high end wall have cambered collars with dovetail lap joints; the collar of the high end truss is missing. Two tiers of threaded purlins and a trenched ridgepiece span across. Similar roof structure covers the front bay of the hall but with light scantling halved collars. The roof over the lower end has been replaced.