Y Wern

Y Wern is a one-and-a-half storey house built in the Arts and Crafts style, likely dating to the early 20th century. It has a roughly L-shaped layout, consisting of a main section with a prominent entrance and a gabled cross-wing to the left. The house is constructed primarily of local slatestone, with the front facades featuring carefully arranged, dressed stone and the rear elevation finished with roughcast. It has a slate roof with projecting gable chimneys topped with simple caps, gable parapets with slab copings, and stepped kneelers.

The front elevation is asymmetrical, with a deeply recessed central entrance bay. This bay contains a part-glazed door with a leaded upper section, flanked by a single arched-headed leaded light to the left and three to the right. Small, semi-circular buttresses are positioned on either side of the entrance. To the right of the entrance bay is a four-light wooden window with trans mullions and opening casement upper sections; a simple projecting hood covers the window. A dormer window projects from the roof above the recessed entrance, featuring a wide, coped dormer with kneelers and paired eight-pane casements. To the left of the entrance bay is the gable end of the cross-wing, featuring three-light trans mullioned windows on both the ground and first floors.

The north-facing return elevation has a chimney that projects from the first floor, incorporating a segmental opening with a six-pane casement window above. A three-light trans mullioned window is present on the ground floor to the left, with a small, meshed pantry window alongside. The south gable end has a slated, parapeted lean-to projection on the ground floor from which a chimney breast rises; two small, vertical windows are set into it. Lower, similarly styled larger windows are also present on the ground floor. A ten-pane glazed door with a label is located on the ground floor to the left. The rear elevation has leaded windows and casements, with a recessed catslide dormer. A boarded service door is found on the unrendered inner return of the cross-wing.

A narrow terrace with a 2.5-meter-high retaining wall fronts the house, with steps leading down to the road.

The interior of the house remains largely unaltered and is plain in style, featuring painted, panelled doors, thin architraves, picture rails, and skirtings – all characteristic of the period. The staircase is simple and arranged in short flights.