Coed Mawr

Coed Mawr is a two-storey, two-unit house, dating from an unknown period, which has been extended. A single-bay service wing was added to the left (southwest) end, and it is linked to a bakehouse and outbuilding to the right by a single-storey block. The house is built of rubble masonry, with a slate roof featuring stone copings and tall stone stacks delineating the original house’s extent, complete with dripstones and capping. Gable dormers break the eaves along the front elevation, and small casements are set under the eaves to the rear.

The main elevation faces southeast. The original house has a doorway slightly offset to the right, flanked by casement windows, with similar windows in gable dormers above. The windows are replacements set in original openings. The service wing on the left, likely originally a lofted cowhouse or stable, has a central doorway with a ventilation slit to the right and a similar dormer offset to its left. At right angles to the right (northeast) end of the range is a single-storey bakehouse of similar materials, retaining a roof of small, old slates and a squat gable stack at its southeast gable. External access is through a doorway in the southwest wall, and there are two casement windows in the opposite wall. A single-storey block, extensively modernised, connects to the right (northeast) end of the original house, and it has a squat stack at the northeast gable and wide, modern French windows to the rear. This block abuts a single-storey, lofted outbuilding, probably a cowhouse, at the far right (northeast) end, which is constructed of boulder masonry with a slate roof featuring stone copings and has a doorway in the southeast wall and a casement window in the northeast gable’s pitching hole.

The interior reveals the original plan form, retaining the opposing doorway opening to the main entrance, although the cross passage panelling has been removed. Exposed timbers in the left (southwest) end of the main room display massive chamfered cross beams and chamfered joists. The right end of this room is now enclosed by a modern ceiling. The fireplace at the southwest end retains a massive chamfered bressumer. Fireplace stairs to the southwest provide access to first-floor rooms, including internal access to the loft at the southwest end of the range. A linear corridor runs along the front elevation, and the bedroom at the northeast end retains a small stone fireplace.

The northeast end of the main downstairs room has been modernised, with the ceiling and fireplace encased. Internal access leads to a room at the northeast end that retains a stone fireplace, and from there to the bakehouse, which retains a massive inglenook.