Bwthyn Marda

Bwthyn Marda comprises a reflected but unequal pair of two-storey, two-window houses built of blocks of quarried stone laid in regular courses. The buildings have a slate roof and roughcast end stacks. The house on the right-hand side is wider than its counterpart. The openings are framed by flat stone arches. The doorways, located on the inner sides, feature half-lit doors with vertical panels and small-pane glazing. The ground-floor windows are 16-pane hornless sashes. The upper-floor windows are 12-pane hornless sashes; the outer windows are set beneath individual gables, while the narrower, inner windows, not aligned with the doorways below, are grouped under a single gable.

To the left is a projecting gabled bay, originally intended as the central element of the design, incorporating a round pitching eye to the loft space. This projecting bay is largely concealed by a modern, 5-bay, 1-storey rendered garage front. Only the original left-hand gable end of what were formerly stables remains visible.

A modern flat canopy is attached to the right gable end, linking to the Royal Madoc Arms Hotel. The rear of the property is predominantly rendered and painted white, and includes a two-storey wing. This wing’s side walls have a boarded door and a small-pane sash window in the upper storey. The rear of the main range also features small-pane sashes on each floor. A further projecting rear wing of former stables is located to the right, constructed of rubble stone, with a largely destroyed roof. This property belongs to a group including 1-2 Dublin Street, Tremadog.