Hafod Lwyfog

Hafod Lwyfog is a sub-medieval storeyed end-chimney house. It dates back to the late medieval period and has been extensively altered. The house is two storeys high with a three-window front. The exterior is constructed of rubble with a whitewashed finish, sitting on boulder foundations, and topped with a renewed slate roof. It features flush end chimneys with weathercoursing and plain capping. The off-centre entrance, on the right-hand side, has an ovolo-moulded doorframe head (with replaced sides), leading to a 20th-century boarded door with decorative ironwork. To the right of the entrance are two 19th-century four-pane sash windows in original openings; to the left is a two-pane sash in a small, original opening, with a tripartite sash window beyond, which is a modern replacement for a late 19th-century original. The first floor has three plain 19th-century sashes in original openings, with two further, blocked openings; slate sills are present throughout. A slate-stepped access leads to a basement room, formerly a dairy, to the right of the entrance. A horizontal four-light 19th-century window illuminates the ground-floor rear, while the first floor features a two-light mid-19th-century casement with metal lattice framing. Centrally, there is an original six-light wooden mullioned and transomed window with plain glazing, alongside a further plain glazed window to the right.

Adjoining the house to the right is a single-storey, two-bay 19th-century cartshed, constructed in a similar style with a plain dividing pier between the bays and a lattice window to the right gable end.

The internal layout follows a two-unit plan with a central service room. The interior retains its original stopped-chamfered beams and grooved joists, and the original post-and-panel partitions largely survive, most with grooved decoration to the external faces and around openings. The ground floor includes a small entrance lobby with post-and-panel partitioning and a former pantry beyond, which has an open upper section with turned balusters above its partition. To the left of the lobby is the former hall, featuring a large end fireplace with a stopped-chamfered bressummer and a slate-flagged floor. A corner houses a part-enclosed, early 19th-century dog-leg stair constructed from grained pine with elm treads and risers. The former parlour, to the right of the lobby, has a 19th-century pine door with reused 17th-century decorative iron hinges. An ovolo-moulded cross-beam is inscribed “ELL/E 1638” (Evan Lloyd edificavit) and a plain, contemporary plaster shield is positioned above a 19th-century fireplace. A wide stone newel stair provides the primary access from the parlour to the first floor, an unusual feature. In the opposing corner is a further, early 19th-century pine dog-leg stair within a recessed wall, which likely replaced privy cupboards on both floors. All four post-and-panel partitions remain on the first floor, with original openings and mostly original boarded doors with plain ironwork. A further section of partitioning conceals the stair access. The main end chambers have shields in relief plasterwork above their fireplaces, originally intended to be heraldically polychromed. A further ovolo-moulded main beam is present in the chamber above the parlour (right). The roof is a four-bay primary structure with pegged oak collar trusses, two of which have segmental doorway heads cut out of the collars.