Hendre-fawr

Hendre-fawr is a large farmhouse, dating from the 17th century, constructed of rubble stone with slate roofs. It has two storeys, cellars and attics, and an 'L'-plan layout, comprising a main range running northwest-southeast, a cross wing at the northwest end, and a stair tower in the re-entrant angle. The main front faces the farmyard and features a Denbighshire cyclopean door with a depressed arch, and a 19th century studded door with lights. A parlour end, likely added slightly later at the southeast, has large mullioned and transomed windows with ovolo-moulded stone frames and cornices on both floors. The rear four-light window to the hall has Tudor-arched lights, with blind sunk spandrels. The cross wing displays stone chamfered mullioned windows; three-light windows are present on all three floors, each with a relieving arch. On the northwest return, three small gables have two-light windows. A hollow chamfered three-light window is in the kitchen on the ground floor. The gabled stair tower at the rear has two levels of mullioned and transomed windows, similar to those in the parlour end, with one window altered. A large, lateral, part-external stack is located at the parlour end, with a shouldered base below the eaves and a stone flue rising to the roof.

The former formal garden at the front is raised on either side of an axial path, with a retaining wall featuring a heavily weathered date stone reading K P / 16...8?.

The kitchen is situated at the rear of the cross wing, accompanied by two service rooms at the front. It retains a very large, blocked stone-arched fireplace on the southwest gable end. The central hall leads to the present drawing room, which was formerly the parlour. The ceiling of the drawing room is divided into four panels, each with a plastered cornice. A major lateral fireplace has been covered over. An upper chamber displays a painted coat-of-arms on the chimney breast—a lion rampant on a white field with a semy of lys, surrounded by blue coloured strapwork, and the date 1636 below. A cut inscription and date are located below the moulded stone mantle on the stone fire lintel. Many of the upper-floor rooms retain original plaster ceilings with hand-moulded cornices, and a moulded ceiling beam is found in the rear wing. The wing is of three bays at roof level. The roof trusses have double collars and raking struts, supporting three tiers of purlins. The roof of the main range is of four bays, with small angled windbraces.