Ty John Iorc

Ty John Iorc is a house dating back to the 17th century, with substantial rebuilding in 1978. The exterior is characterised by whitewashed rendered walls and a slate roof, raised at the rear in 1978. A large rubble stone diagonal stack on the rear roof slope, dating from the 17th century, sits at the join between the two sections of the house. The front facade is two storeys high, divided into an original section on the right and a rebuilt section on the left. The original section features two slate-block raking buttresses, and the rebuilt section has two square windows above a single window and door. To the right of the rebuilt section is a small square ground floor window, a small pointed first floor window, a larger square ground floor window, and a rectangular ground floor window with a small square window above it, slightly misaligned. All windows are 20th century replacements, though their sizes generally match those shown in a 1946 photograph. The front is rubble stone, with a 12-pane sash window in the lean-to at the left end. The main range has a nine-pane sash window to the right of the first buttress, a crude Gothic casement pair in the pointed window, and a doorway where a larger ground floor window once stood. That door originally had a 15-paned overlight. The ground floor window to the right was a nine-pane sash, and the small eaves window was a casement pair. The rear roof has been raised, incorporating 20th century windows where the original wall plate stood. A further raking buttress and 20th century weatherboarding are present on the west gable. An outbuilding at the rear northeast corner has been altered, but may be of early origin, as the lower walls are believed to be keyed in.

The original house appears to have been a two-bay open hall with a parlour to the west, with the entrance passage likely in its current location. A door jamb carved from oak curves to the right within the wall. Behind the entry is a large 17th-century fireplace inserted into the hall, featuring a 3.3-meter chamfered oak lintel. A stone winding stair was cut into the wall near the fireplace entry, clearly dating from the 17th century. The interior includes a ceiling with a heavy axial beam, wall beams, and square joists with varied chamfered and ogee stops. The main beam rests on a heavy post and panel partition with openings at each end, the left-hand opening possibly original; the posts are numbered 4 to 8. A further unheated parlour has a beam cut back for former ladder access to a loft, and slots in the window lintel indicate former shutters. The upper floor features two massive cruck trusses, with their feet buried in the ground floor walls, but there is no evidence to suggest these represent an earlier timber-frame building. Double massive purlins and evidence of patterned windbracing are present, and one carved windbrace survives.