Rhydywernen

Rhydywernen is a single-storey hall house from the late medieval period, originally built with timber framing and cruck construction. The walls are encased in boulder and rubble, rendered at the front, and it features a steeply-pitched slate roof with two modern skylights on both the front and rear slopes. There is a near-central stack with weathercoursing and modern capping.

The entrance side has a modern porch with a catslide roof, which includes stable doors and a part-glazed inner door. Flanking windows feature modern wooden-framed glazing with horizontal tilting casement sections at the top, and the left window has an exposed timber lintel. To the left, there is a later lean-to addition with a continuously-roofed modern extension beyond, which has two steel-framed windows on the end wall. The rear elevation has three windows with modern glazing similar to the front, and a narrow entrance on the far right with a deeply-recessed part-glazed modern door accessed by three rough stone steps. There is a plain-glazed window to the right of this entrance, located in the lean-to, which has an expressed timber lintel.

Inside, the former open hall has been ceiled and features a lobby entry and a large central stack. The beamed hall ceiling dates from the late 16th or early 17th century and includes a wide stopped chamfered main beam and finely stopped-chamfered joists. A primary post-and-panel dais partition remains opposite the fireplace, which is an inglenook type with a curved, chamfered oak bressummer. To the left of the fireplace is an early 19th-century stick baluster staircase. The original cruck blades of the truss are visible within the later outer walls, and the hall trusses can be seen on the loft floor, one being an ornate truss with cusped struts above the collar, and the other a collar-and-tie beam truss.