Caerau including garden wall to front

Early C18 lofted single-unit cottage, with added parlour wing to R and modern wing to L (the latter replacing an earlier building). Rubble masonry with boulder foundation, rendered and limewashed. Roof of old small slates, heavily grouted to older part, with stone gable copings to R and cement copings to L. The extent of the original house is marked by a massive stack to R gable, and false stack to L; stack on R hand gable of parlour; a similar matching false stack at L gable of modern extension. The main entrance is now offset to the R of the large chimney and leads to the parlour bay; a boarded door with glazed upper panel flanked by unevenly spaced recessed 4-pane casement windows; that to the L was the doorway to the original cottage. The raking half-dormer has a 2-pane casement window with small upper light. The rear elevation of the original cottage has a widened 4-light 'picture' window, each window with narrow 8-pane sash windows, separated by timber mullions. To the L, the parlour window is a recessed 4-pane casement retaining its original proportions. To the R, the modern addition has two closely set 12-pane sash windows. Small iron skylight to rear pitch. To the front of the old part of the cottage is a low stone wall enclosing a rectangular (with rounded corners) garden; two entrances with wrought iron gates.

The original plan was a single-unit crogloft cottage with central offset doorway. The main entrance now leads into the parlour bay to R, with passage to L leading to original part, and steep wooden staircase to loft. The original part has a wide inglenook fireplace to the R end, with a stop-chamfered ceiling beam and hewn joists. The roof is of two bays with a crude collared truss of re-used timbers. There is a second entrance to the newer bay to the L, which also leads into the original part.