Pant Glas Farmhouse

Storeyed farmhouse and byre range of rubble consruction with slate roof, half-hipped at the gable ends; two simple brick chimneys (to larger, earlier stacks). The main (SE) front is whitened and has an off-centre entrance within a C20 gabled porch; boarded door. Flanking recessed sash windows, 6-pane to the L and 4-pane to the R; Further boarded door to far L with small 8-pane casement beyond. Under the eaves on the first floor are three 6-pane sash windows. To the R, and continuous with the present domestic section is a stable section, originally also domestic. Boarded door with 4-pane overlight, an altered primary entrance. To the R a large entrance with boarded double doors; this possibly replaces a lateral chimney in this position originally; two boarded loft lights above. To the R gable, an external rubble-parapetted stone stair, giving access to an upper entrance with boarded door. To the unwhitened rear, the N corner has characteristically long quoins. Blocked opening to L with former primary entrance beyond, now an 8-pane casement. This is an opposing entrance to the primary one on the main face and therefore suggests a cross-passage plan; quoins as before. Further 4 and 8-pane casements of varying sizes to both floors, including small primary windows to ground floor. A masonry break at far R indicates the extent of the primary block; the extension is C19. Former upper entrance to SW gable. Adjoining at the front is a hipped-roofed, single-storey wash house or dairy block of the C19; boarded door and 16-pane sash to NE face, the latter with boarded lower section.

Wide inglenook fireplace with chamfered oak lintel to L room of farmhouse section; boxed beams to ceiling. The present stable section has a high beamed ceiling indicative of high status; wide stopped-chamfered main (transverse) beams and crisp stopped-chamfered joists of diagnostically early character. Cross-passage (?) to the L with later rubble internal wall dividing house from stable; in the L corner a large square masonry mass relates to a C19 'borrowing' of the space to create a dairy/pantry area accessed via the house. The ceiling has lost one main beam to the centre, the attendant joists being correspondingly replaced; This relates to the insertion of the large frontal entrance which may have been created through the removal of a lateral chimney, whose position here would be contextually logical. 3 blocked openings to the rear wall.