Pen-y-bryn

Pen-y-bryn is a building with an original rectangular plan, oriented roughly north-west to south-east, which has undergone later additions and alterations. The exterior is constructed of uncoursed rubblestone with large dressed quoins and features a slate roof with integral square end stacks. The left gable has a projecting slate string at the eaves level and a coped parapet. The east front has three first-floor windows and two ground-floor windows flanking a central doorway, with small original openings that contain 19th-century sash windows. At the rear, there is a two-storey rubblestone wing from the 19th century, which includes an integral end stack made of sawn slate blocks.

The interior was only partly inspected due to its poor condition at the time of the survey. The main door opens to a wooden winder staircase with stick balusters. The principal ground-floor room to the right, separated from the hallway by a wooden screen, features chamfered beams and joists, as well as a large inglenook fireplace with a timber lintel. The three-bay open roof above the principal first-floor room to the right has one plain A-frame truss with simple bolted joists, and a mortice and tenoned truss with continuous chamfer to the principals, which have curved feet at the wall-tops. There is also a cranked collar and pairs of large butt purlins on the backs of the principals, with pegged rafters and lath and plaster in between. At the time of the survey, many slates were missing from this part of the roof. Additionally, there is a fireplace with a chamfered surround in the left first-floor room.