Llanfendigaid

Llanfendigaid is a mid-18th-century house with an early 20th-century rear wing. The main range is dated 1745 by an inscription on a slate over the doorway, bearing the initials I.N.

The main range is constructed of local slate and shale rubble in long blocks, roughly coursed and dressed, with slate roofs. It is two storeys high with an attic storey. The façade comprises a fine seven-window range with a central entrance. The building has coped gables and end chimneys, with the right-hand chimney projecting notably.

The central doorway is set within a flat-roofed porch, which was modified around 1920 from an earlier gabled porch added in 1867. The door is four-panelled with an overlight. The windows are predominantly 12-pane hornless sashes with dressed slate and shale lintels and sills. The two ground-floor windows to the right, however, are floor-length 18-pane sashes, altered to this form around 1920. The roof contains three dormers, all with small-paned windows and glazed apexes; the outer two have been renewed to form opening lights. The right-hand return features a projecting stack with a string course at eaves level, matched by a corresponding course in the gable wall to the right of the stack.

The wide rear wing is largely early 20th-century in date, though it probably incorporates elements of an 18th-century wing. This is suggested by the absence of obvious service accommodation within the main block and by the character of stonework on the east-facing elevation, which appears earlier than that to the west. The axial chimney also resembles those of the main range more closely than the clearly early 20th-century stack on the west wall. The wing is built of rough rubble with coarsely dressed quoins and dressings to most windows. The west elevation has a central gabled porch beneath a tall axial stack rising from the eaves, with irregular fenestration comprising a series of four- and two-pane sash windows. The east-facing elevation has two gabled dormers with four-pane sashes aligned with similar first-floor windows, followed by three 12-pane sash windows without quoins grouped to the ground-floor left (again perhaps indicative of an earlier core), and a single four-pane sash to the right. The positioning of the axial ridge stack may mark the original end wall of an earlier rear wing, as it corresponds to a change in the character of the walling on the south elevation. The broad end gable of the wing has two four-pane sashes to ground and attic floors, and three at first floor.

The interior of the main range has a central entrance and stair hall flanked by a parlour or study to the east and a drawing room to the west, with kitchen accommodation in the outer bay of the rear wing and a dining room adjoining the main range to the south-east. The dining room features simple Georgian-style wall panelling with fluted pilasters either side of a shallow-arched fireplace, probably early 20th-century work. The entrance hall in the main range has a polychrome tiled floor (probably early 20th-century), fielded panelled wainscotting of the 18th century, and a staircase offset to the left. The mid-18th-century staircase is of good quality, with turned balusters, swept rail and scroll-moulded tread-ends.

The drawing room to the east has painted wainscotting in three tiers of plain panels with reed-moulding to the fireplace; the coat of arms above was painted in the 1920s and the panelling may also date to this period. The room has a deep moulded plaster cornice to the ceiling. The scale of the fireplace does not relate to the large size of the external stack, raising questions about the original function of this room or the origins of the massive chimney. The larger sitting room to the west has complete mid-18th-century wainscotting, two panels high, with fielded panels and a dado rail, and a deep plaster cornice. A stop-chamfered cross-beam may survive from the pre-1745 house.

On the first floor, the central landing has wall panelling with vestigial mouldings. The large bedroom to the west has 18th-century panelling including a fireplace surround and cornice. A stop-chamfered (plastered) cross-beam in this room may also relate to the pre-1745 house; the interrupted chamfer suggests the room was once subdivided along its length. The east bedroom has similar panelling with reeded pilasters flanking the fireplace. In the attic storey, the date 1746 with initials I.N. appears in raised letters over a fireplace, and there are four plastered cambered collar trusses.