Ty-newydd

Ty-newydd is a farmhouse, probably dating from the 18th century, with earlier origins. It is constructed of local stone rubble, whitewashed, and has a hipped slate roof. The main NW front, with five window bays, results from an 18th-century enlargement, originally likely of three bays with a central living hall. The central entrance features a six-fielded and panelled door with fluted pilasters on tall dies, a triglyph frieze, and a pediment, surmounted by a three-pane overlight, all designed by Clough Williams Ellis. The windows are 12-pane sash windows with wide boxes and plain heavy glazing bars on the ground and first floors, the joinery painted a characteristic blue-green. A central hipped dormer was added in 1945, featuring cut-out scrolled supports. A rear dormer of the original 18th-century house is partially obscured.

A rear extension, also by Williams Ellis, consists of a projecting apsidal library built of rough whitewashed rubble, supported on two rubble columns, with oversailing glazed doors and a 12-pane sash window to the present dining room. This extension has continuous, five-paned bevelled-glass windows in the apse, set beneath a slated semi-cone roof. The SW end elevation has a garden door from the office and a raised hipped dormer. The W elevation features a similar dormer and two tiers of openings used as nest boxes for doves.

The front door opens into a cross passage leading to the staircase, crossing the end of a large room at the NE end of the front, which retains an 18th-century plaster full cornice. Two symmetrical panelled cupboard doors are situated at the far end of this room. To the right of the passage, the office has a fireplace on the rear wall and a dentilled cornice. The rear staircase is partially enclosed but retains part of a handsome ‘Chinese Chippendale’ balustrade. On the first floor, the library is accessed via a six-panelled door and features a vaulted plaster ceiling. At a lower level, the dining room contains part of a good 16th-century post-and-panel cross partition with a shaped doorhead and a moulded head bressumer against the rear wall; carpenter's marks are visible on the lower panels, with the more finished face in the end room. A plain, open fireplace with a high timber fire lintel (now reduced in depth) is located at the NE end of the dining room.