Pensarn

This is a group of five buildings – Pensarn, Glan-Awen, Three Rivers, Clydfan and Tegfan – forming a terrace on Smith Street. The buildings are of coursed rubble construction, sharing a slate roof and punctuated by five plain end and central chimneys. Clydfan and Tegfan, the two buildings at the right-hand end of the terrace, are stuccoed and presented as a mirrored pair, each with one window and a central pair of entrances, and a blank window above. They have modern boarded doors and later 19th-century sash windows on both floors, the first-floor windows set under the eaves, and retain their original character well. Three Rivers, originally two dwellings, now has a modern central entrance flanked by enlarged modern windows with intersecting wooden tracery at the top. There are four modern, rendered windows to the first floor and a large modern extension to the rear. A distinct break in the masonry is visible between the rear extension and Glan-Awen. Glan-Awen features a central entrance with a modern door, flanked by modern windows on both floors, set within original openings. Slate lintels with returned slate labels are above the ground-floor windows. Pensarn, the building to the left of the group, is roughcast and has a large recessed area on the ground floor, indicating the former presence of a shopfront. This recess contains a modern glazed door and an adjacent window. The first floor retains an original 16-pane recessed 19th-century sash window. A slightly set-back lean-to addition adjoins the building on the left.