Ty Ucha

Ty Ucha comprises a group of buildings – Ty Ucha, Ty Ucha House, Ty Ucha Bach, and Ty Ucha Cottage – which have evolved over several centuries. The main house, Ty Ucha, is a three-storey, three-bay, near-symmetrical building likely dating to the late 18th or early 19th century. It is constructed of roughcast rubble on a part-boulder plinth, with a modern slate roof. It features stone-coped gable parapets with curved stone kneelers and plain rendered brick chimneys. A modern glazed and slated porch sits near the centre of the front, and the windows are near-flush, unhorned 12-pane sashes, intended to replicate the originals. Smaller windows in the attic are contained within gabled dormers that project slightly above the eaves, and plain modern bargeboards are present. The building has stuccoed sill courses and window surrounds from around 1900, incorporating simple, shaped corbels below the windows. A lean-to addition to the right has a similar window and stucco surround.

Adjoining the main house to the rear is the earlier range now known as Ty Ucha House. This is a two-storey building with exposed rubble walls and a renewed slate roof, hipped to the southeast. It has a large central stack. An entrance is located on the northeast side, with a boarded door and a four-pane rectangular overlight beneath a renewed bracketed porch canopy. A four-pane sash is positioned on the left, with a six-pane window above, under the eaves. An early 19th century addition to the left incorporates two further four-pane, Victorian-style sashes within what were formerly two cart bays, now reduced in size.

Adjoining the main house at right-angles to the northeast, and located to the rear, is a late 18th or 19th century service addition, now called Ty Ucha Bach. It is constructed using similar materials, with a lateral red brick chimney and a brick end chimney to a mono-pitch northeast gable. The upper section of this gable is also of brick and incorporates an inset slate plaque, inscription now illegible. A central entrance is marked by a modern boarded stable door, flanked by four-pane late 19th/early 20th century casement windows; exposed timber lintels cover the ground-floor openings. Two contemporary four-pane sashes with projecting sills sit under the eaves. A later 19th century mono-pitched link block extends into the narrow space between Ty Ucha Bach, the main building and Ty Ucha Cottage, and features further four-pane sashes on two floors.

Adjoining Ty Ucha Bach to the northwest, and enclosing the forecourt of the main house on the northeast side, is Ty Ucha Cottage. This two-storey cottage is constructed of rendered rubble with a modern slate roof. Rectangular six-pane sashes (replicas of the originals) are positioned on both floors, flanking a central entrance. A modern boarded door sits under a slated and bracketed porch canopy. Adjoining the cottage to the right is a short section of dressed, coped forecourt wall with a plain, terminating, square gate pier. The interiors have been modernised and are now plain.