Hen Wrych

Hen Wrych is a roughly Z-shaped, two-storey house dating back to the early 19th century, constructed of rubble with slate roofs and chimneys featuring cornicing. The asymmetrical north (entrance) front has a main range with a projecting, gabled section. A segmentally arched entrance leads to a modern boarded door. A modern window replaces an earlier opening on the raised ground floor above. To the left is a window from the second quarter of the 19th century, with a Tudor arch, small-pane iron-framed glazing, and intersecting tracery. A returned sandstone label above suggests an earlier window was present. In the gable apex is a two-light mullioned window with a moulded label and modern glazing. Further left is an early 17th-century mullioned and transomed cross-window, with a returned label and modern glazing. An adjacent label indicates a blocked cross-window of the same style. Above this, a small two-light mullioned window sits under the eaves. A flush chimney with a gable rises from the roof line nearby. Basement windows include two-light mullioned openings alongside a modern window. A set-back range to the right features a Tudor-arched window with the same glazing as before, and a small late 19th-century two-light window in a former entrance. Contemporary squat three-light wooden mullioned windows are present on the first floor to the right, with a reset 17th-century window to the left, set within a sandstone surround. Further two-light mullioned windows appear on the return wall of the main, gabled section; the first-floor window has a moulded label, while the ground-floor window lacks both label and mullion. A symmetrical three-window block forms the rear, featuring late 19th-century window openings on both floors, with gabled dormers on the first floor. These have plain bargeboards, projecting stone cills and modern glazing.

Inside, an early 19th-century stick-baluster staircase with a swept pine rail leads to the entrance hall. The ground and basement floors contain rooms with stopped-chamfered beamed ceilings; the former hall's ceiling is framed in three ways, and the basement room on the left has broach stops and wall corbelling. Corbelling on the front-facing wall of the basement room relates to a lateral fireplace in the room above. This fireplace has a square-headed sandstone surround with an ovolo mould, dating back to the 17th century; a box-framed oak partition is contemporary, although the 17th-century ovolo-moulded doorcase to which has been removed for storage. A wide lateral fireplace with primary corbelling supporting a 19th-century plastered brick arch is found in the hall of the rear range. Additional primary fireplaces are present in the former parlour (now kitchen) and a chamber above, both being end fireplaces with corbelled-out, chamfered oak bressummers. Mortice holes in two lateral beams in the entrance hall suggest former post-and-panel partitioning. A beamed ceiling remains in a front-facing first-floor room, and the roof of the hall range retains original three-bay collar trusses with pegged, raking struts.