Tros-y-gors

Tros-y-gors is a building of probable late-medieval origin, later enlarged, with significant historical interest. The external appearance shows rubble walls constructed from various local stones, some containing fossils, topped by a slate roof and rendered chimney stacks. The front is whitewashed, while the rear reveals the building's development through masonry breaks, quoins, plinths, and bonding stones. The building was initially constructed in the middle of its life, extended to the right (east) with the addition of a main chimney, and later a parlour was added to the left (west). A more recent, modernized addition, originally with a pitched roof, now projects to the front. The front features small-pane sash windows on the first floor, and 16-pane and sliding sash windows below, with an off-centre entrance that formerly had a porch. Rear windows are modern, horizontally sliding sashes designed to be in character with the building.

The most significant features are found internally, particularly within the core of the original building to the left of the cross passage. The southern rendered wall would have abutted a lost hall, while the north wall retains close-studded timber framing and a blocked, exceptional two-light window with acutely pointed heads; peg holes suggest that this window has been enlarged. The framing rests on a stone plinth with a partially replaced sill beam, and the floor has been lowered. A chimney bressumer is joined to a former corner wall-post, and the fireplace is partly infilled, blocking a former bread oven to the rear. The interior also features chamfered beams and joists with run-out stops, with main axial and cross beams connecting to the centre. A massive cross beam is present in the later room, stepped up to the west. A modern staircase is now in place, although the original may have been located at the southeast corner beside the chimney. First-floor alterations are evident, revealed by the relative thinness of the north wall compared to the ground floor, which suggests a jetty. A section of bressumer was recently discovered beneath the render in 1991. An in and out partition wall divides the bathroom.

The roof retains three trusses and purlins relating to the original building, likely dating to the late medieval period, indicating the building's original two-bay extent. The easternmost truss is closed against the chimney; an open tie and collar beam truss is in the middle, with angled struts and later in and out panelling; the western truss leans and was closed, retaining wattle and daub infill below the collar. The purlins project west of this truss, beyond which the roof is a later construction with simple collar trusses.