Plas Penmynydd

Two storey farmhouse with attics; the N block represents the extent of the original, 1576, house; with later additions to rear (S). Rendered and slate clad stone walls. Roof of old small slates; tall chimneys with moulded capping (S stack is gabled, a square shaft of coursed gritstone with chamfered offsets and a moulded capping of C17 character).

The original N doorway is now partially blocked, with a window in the upper part; the stone step and four-centred rear arch remain. Above it is a stone cross shaft and a stone each side, one with the Tudor arms (C16), and the other a Saracen's head. Reset in the E wall of the late C17 kitchen extension to rear (S) are two stones; one reads: PERACTV EST OPVS LAVS DEO, and the other: VIVE VT VIVAS ANNO DOMINI. On the W side reset in a modern wall is a stone which bears the date and initials: 1576 R.O.T.

Sash windows with glazing bars, some recessed, and with visible frames. Entrance door has 6 fielded panels and rectangular fan with glazing bars.

The original house (N block) was rebuilt in mid C17, the groundplan then with central living room or kitchen and rooms to either side; the staircase to the R (W) of the central room, either leading out of the room or from a screened off passage.

The Hall fireplace of the Elizabethan house has been retained and is now sited in the sitting room; it has a four-centred arch with a double roll-moulding continued on the jambs. The room also retains 3 C17 chamfered oak beams with moulded stops, which carry the ceiling beams. The central beam is supported at the N end by a C16 stone corbel carved with a human face, probably in situ, a support for the Hall roof truss. The partition between the Hall and the room to the E is a C17 division and consists partly of plain rails with roughly bevelled panels. The partition between the staircase passage and the room to the W also marks the C17 division. On the first floor 2 chamfered beams are visible. The late C17 kitchen has a stop chamfered cross-beam and an oak beam over the fireplace.

The roof of the N block is C17; the pitch later flattened by raising the lower purlins and some C17 panelling is fixed beneath one of the trusses.