Werglodd Wen

Werglodd Wen is a two-storey vernacular farmhouse, largely of the mid-19th century, with an additional wing added later to form an L-shaped plan. The original section is built of local slatestone with whitened elevations and boulder foundations, topped with a pitched slate roof. The right-hand end chimney is rendered; the left-hand chimney was rebuilt in the late 19th century using yellow stock brick. The three-window front elevation is nearly symmetrical, with a central entrance and boarded door. A mid-19th century metal-framed cross-window with four-pane casement sections is to the left of the entrance, and the other windows are later 19th-century four-pane casements, all with rough-dressed slate lintels and projecting slate sills. The additional wing has an early 20th-century part-glazed door in the centre, alongside two small 20th-century four-pane windows set under the eaves within 19th-century openings. The wing’s advanced gable end features a 19th-century nine-pane horned sash window on the ground floor left, and a blind window on the right, painted to resemble a small-pane cross-window.

The rear elevation of the main section has two genuine cross-windows on the first floor, and a four-pane casement on the ground floor, within an area of rebuilt masonry. A lean-to dairy block adjoins the left side. A further window, similar to those on the front, lights the first floor of the additional wing’s rear gable. A single-storey storage range, with a steeply-pitched roof, is attached to the front; the right-hand gable end has been removed. This range has a rough pegged collar truss, a deeply-recessed entrance with a boarded door to the right, providing access to the main block, and an outshut adjoining to the right with an old, heavy slate roof.

The main entrance leads into a hall with a small study to the right and a stair and pantry passage beyond. The hall has a 19th-century quarry-tiled red and yellow floor and a beamed ceiling with a roughly-chamfered main beam and plain longitudinal joists. Slate-flagged floors are present in the passage and pantry, the latter of which has slate shelves and a boarded door within a stopped-chamfered doorcase. An enclosed, straight-flight 19th-century staircase rises from the hall. The additional wing is accessed from the hall, which itself has its own entrance hall with a polychromed tiled floor in yellow, green, white, and black. Two six-panel doors lead off to ground-floor rooms, each with simple slate fireplaces. A dogleg staircase with stick balusters and octagonal newels is located to the left of the wing's entrance hall. Rough-studded partition walls are also present throughout the property.