Highgate

The house is built of river boulders, the front remodelled c1810-1820 when it was raised to two storeys with roughly coursed galletted rubble. The original grouted slate roof was replaced in slate in the 1980s. The front is of two storeys, 2 bays, with a central framed and boarded door and 16-pane sash windows to both floors, the doors and windows renewed. Between the upper windows, a painted wooden trade sign reading RICHARD LLOYD / GWNEUTHURWR. Below, a recent slate panel identifying the building as Cartref David Lloyd George 1864-1880. The rear clearly indicates the two builds. Gable stacks.

On the left, a single-storey cobbler's shop with a similar boarded door and large 18-pane shop window. Low gable end stack.

The interior consists of a main living room to the left of the door with a slate floor and a Coalbrookdale range in the stack. The stair with its stick baluster rail is opposite the front door, and a parlour to the right retains its original iron fireplace and a boarded partition dividing off a service room at the rear. The upper floor rooms retain matchboarded ceilings, partitions and doors, and a fireplace in the E bedroom.

The workshop is open to the roof, with a large stone stack and firebeam. The central truss has bolted collars, one re-used, and two tiers of purlins. The inner lintels over the openings are round pole timbers. Undergoing refurbishment at the time of inspection.