Isfryn

Isfryn is a terrace of six workers' cottages located at Mawddwy Terrace in Minllyn, Dinas Mawddwy. Built in a mountain-Gothic style, the cottages feature selected local slate laid on bed and slate roofs. The design includes two bilaterally symmetrical cottages that create a large gable at each end, which are set slightly forward to dominate the central cottages. Each cottage has a 4-paned half-glazed door with a plain overlight, and 4-paned horned sash windows on both floors, all topped with triangular heads made of shale voussoirs. The upper floor windows in the central cottages are set within five large raised and gabled dormers. The cottages have deep eaves supported by extended purlins and ridges with shaped ends. Stone stacks are present on the party walls, featuring necking strings and outsetting heads. The large gable ends display decorative timber framing in the upper half. Internally, the partitions are reportedly made of slate slabs set on end, an innovation attributed to Buckley and his architect, James Stephens. The cottage forms the west side of the end pair, although the decorative framing in the gable has been removed. Six-panelled doors lead off the through passage from the front door.