9 Rhiw Fach Terrace

9 Rhiw Fach Terrace is part of a row of houses, numbered 1 to 10, located in Cwm Penmachno, within the Bro Machno Community. The buildings are constructed from 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 are marked by 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 doors are generally located to the right, except for No 1, which has its door to 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 on the southwest return. No 10 includes 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 having three first-floor windows and a central doorway flanked by windows. Nos 4 and 5 display some decorative render around their windows and doors, while No 6 is fully rendered and painted. Houses 1 to 7 retain 19th-century sash glazing, most of which still has the original marginal glazing bars, whereas Nos 8 and 10 have replacement glazing.

At the rear of the houses, there are various extensions, including a distinctive contemporary attached parallel gabled block to Nos 3 and 4. The rear sides largely maintain small pane glazing, featuring either horned sashes or fixed panes.

The houses are set within forecourts that have 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.