Bwlch Coch Farmhouse

Bwlch Coch Farmhouse is a 17th-century, two-unit cross-passage regional house with an end chimney. The interior was re-ordered around 1800, and a third unit with external access was added to the right in the late 17th or early 18th century.

The farmhouse is one and a half storeys tall with two windows on the front. It features rubble masonry and steeply pitched quarry slate roofs laid to diminishing courses, with plain eaves and close verges. There is a square stone stack on the right and a rectangular stack set lengthways to the ridge on the left, both with moulded caps and water tabling. The later unit has a similar square stack with water tabling and raking gable parapets.

The house has two 18th-century gabled stone dormers, both with close verges and laced valleys, but modern windows. The ground floor has modern windows with dropped sills and stone lintels. A broad doorway, offset to the left of centre, has a projecting stone lintel that forms a dripstone, leading to a modern door. There is also a broad doorway to the later unit with a stone lintel and a strap and pintle hung plank door.

The rear elevation corresponds with the front, featuring a projecting lintel over a former back door that has been converted to a window. There is a small window to the right, a blocked window to the left, and a stone lintel above. The later unit has a window at the rear with a stone lintel set under the eaves.

Adjoining to the left is an early 19th-century lofted cowhouse, constructed of coursed rubble masonry. It has a steeply pitched quarry slate roof with diminishing courses, plain eaves, and close verges. The cowhouse features a central doorway with a deep stone lintel and a split door, a loft door set under the eaves to the left, and a vent to the gable end. There is also a stone lintel over the split door on the rear.

Inside the farmhouse, there are stop-chamfered transverse ceiling beams, with the end beams resting against the walls on stone corbels. The joists are similarly stop-chamfered, and there is a bressumer over the broad fireplace. A dog-leg stair from around 1800 leads to the centre of the house, while the interior of the later unit has not been inspected.