Tyddyn-y-Felin

This is a late 16th century, two-storey farmhouse with a single-storey cottage to the southwest, linked by a modern addition. The farmhouse is built on a T-shaped plan and constructed from roughly coursed dressed stone with large boulders used as quoins. It has a slate roof with stone copings and tall gable stacks with dripstones and capping; the stack on the south gable is a later addition. The roof was re-slated in the 20th century and now has small roof lights in the rear pitch. The principal elevation, facing west towards an enclosed garden, has a three-window range, with two first-floor windows offset to the north and the doorway offset to the south. A large stone lintel above the door bears a plaque commemorating John Evans (1892-1949), author of “Pearls of the Past.” Flanking the ground-floor windows are tall four-pane casements, and the first-floor windows are two-pane horned sashes, all with rough stone lintels and slate sills. A single window was cut into the rear elevation and another into the north gable, both featuring modern top-hung casement windows. A lateral stack and what is thought to have been a staircase are located at the rear of the north gable projection, set within an angled block. A recent brick-built lean-to in the northeast angle has a boarded door in the east elevation.

The single-storey cottage to the southwest, which may have been an earlier house or a dower house, is constructed of local rubble masonry with large stones as quoins and lintels. It also has a re-slated roof with some rooflights along the north pitch, a tiled ridge, stone coping, and a large gable stack to the west with dripstones and capping. The principal elevation, facing north into the enclosed garden, has a single doorway offset to the east and a single small window to the right.

The two units are now physically linked by a modern, flat-roofed, single-storey addition to the southeast, although there is no internal access between them.

Inside the 16th century farmhouse, there is a cross passage plan and a lateral chimney block to the rear. A wooden panel in the passage is inscribed with the date 1592. The cottage to the southwest contains a massive corbelled fireplace with a large timber bressumer to the west gable, retaining an old brick-built boiler. The roof retains roughly chamfered collared trusses.