2 Rhiw Fach Terrace

2 Rhiw Fach Terrace is part of a row of houses known as Rhiw Fach Terrace, located in Cwm Penmachno, within the Bro Machno Community. The buildings are constructed of squared dark stone rubble, interspersed with buff stone in the quoins, and feature slate roofs with rectangular stone chimneys that originally had four flues each. The ground floor windows and doors have deep stone lintels.

Houses numbered 1 to 3 and 8 to 10 are designed as two-window homes, with upper windows positioned at the eaves and ground floor windows and doors aligned directly below. The door is located to the right, except for No. 1, which has its door on the left. No. 1 has been extended at the rear with flat slate rubble, resulting in a higher eaves level and ridge. It also features a window on each floor of the southwest return. No. 10 has a basement due to the slope down to the stream, with a door and two windows to the right on the northeast return. Houses numbered 4 to 7 are double-fronted, each with three first-floor windows and a central doorway flanked by windows. Nos 4 and 5 have decorative render around their windows and doors, while No. 6 is fully rendered and painted. Nos 1 to 7 retain 19th-century sash glazing, most with intact marginal glazing bars, whereas Nos 8 to 10 have replacement glazing.

At the rear, there are various extensions, including an unusual contemporary attached parallel gabled block to Nos 3 and 4. The rear of the houses largely maintains small pane glazing, either with horned sashes or fixed panes.

The houses are set within forecourts that feature low slate rubble walls, some adorned with iron railings, and slate gate-posts. The partition walls of the forecourts are primarily made of upright slate slabs. Across the lane from the front of the houses, there are small gardens on land that slopes down to the stream, with walls constructed from upright slate slabs.