Ty Ucha

Ty Ucha comprises a group of buildings including Ty Ucha House, Ty Ucha Bach, and Ty Ucha Cottage, developed in several phases from the late 18th century onwards.

The main house is a three-storey, three-bay, near-symmetrical building with an end chimney. It’s built of roughcast rubble on a part-boulder plinth, with a modern slate roof. It has stone-coped gable parapets with curved stone kneelers, and plain rendered brick chimneys. A modern glazed and slated porch shelters the centrally placed entrance. The windows are near-flush, unhorned 12-pane sashes, intended to replicate original features. Smaller windows in the attic are contained within gabled dormers that project slightly above the eaves, with plain modern bargeboards. Stuccoed sill courses and window surrounds from around 1900 feature simple, shaped corbels beneath the windows. A lean-to addition to the right side mimics the window style and stucco surround.

Behind the main house stands the older primary range, now known as Ty Ucha House. This is a two-storey range with exposed rubble walls and a renewed slate roof, hipped to the southeast. A large central stack is present. The entrance on the northeast side has a boarded door and a four-pane rectangular overlight, sheltered by a renewed bracketed porch canopy. A four-pane sash window is located to the left, with another above it, set under the eaves. An early 19th century addition extends to the left side, incorporating two further four-pane, Victorian-style sashes within the spaces of what were formerly two cart bays, now reduced in size.

Adjoining the main house at a right angle to the northeast, and forming the rear of the main building, is a late 18th or 19th century service addition, now called Ty Ucha Bach. This section is similarly constructed, with a lateral red brick chimney and a brick end chimney on the mono-pitch northeast gable. The upper section of this gable is also brick and has an inset slate plaque bearing illegible markings. A central entrance features a modern boarded stable door, flanked by four-pane, late 19th/early 20th century casement windows. Exposed timber lintels define the ground-floor openings. Two contemporary four-pane sashes with projecting sills are located under the eaves.

A later 19th century mono-pitched link block, with further four-pane sashes across two floors, is built in the narrow space between Ty Ucha Bach and the main building, also connecting to Ty Ucha Cottage.

Adjoining the main group to the northwest and enclosing the forecourt on the northeast side stands Ty Ucha Cottage. This is a two-storey cottage of rendered rubble, with a modern slate roof. Rectangular six-pane sashes (replicas of originals) are positioned on either side of a central entrance on both floors, those on the first floor set under the eaves. A modern boarded door is sheltered by a slated and bracketed porch canopy. To the right is a short section of dressed, coped forecourt wall with a plain, square gate pier marking the end.

The interiors have been modernised and are largely plain.