Former Farmhouse at Cadwst Mawr

The former farmhouse at Cadwst Mawr is a four-bay, two-storey range of random stone, featuring large boulder footings and a corrugated asbestos roof. The building’s south side resembles a farm building. The current entrance is a full-height opening on the right-hand end, approximately one-and-a-half bays wide, with corrugated iron roofing beneath the eaves. A small window is located to the left of the entrance. At the left end of the range is an early 20th-century metal window with a ventilator, a concrete lintel, and a brick jamb on the right side; a brick panel fills the space above the lintel, rising to the eaves. Immediately to the right of this brick infill is a first-floor doorway. A lower stable range adjoins the west gable end, connecting to a small, single-unit stone granary or hay shed with openings on the upper right and lower left sides, the former accessible by a grassed ramp. The east gable end has a planked door on the left side of the upper storey.

The north side of the range, only partially visible during inspection, includes three doorways related to a cowhouse, while still preserving features of a 19th-century house. The upper storey has four window openings with fixed wooden windows, with the third from the left filled with brick. Beneath the right-hand window is brick infill associated with a former upper-level doorway. The lower storey retains a wooden doorframe including an overlight in the left doorway, which likely served as the original house entrance, leading into the hall. A rendered surround is present on the right-hand doorway. Further window openings are located beneath the upper storey openings. The lower, adjoining stable range on the right has a door on the right and a window on the left.

The interior, accessed through the wide south entrance, opens into the former parlour in the right-hand end bay. This is open to the hall, which was likely originally two bays, with a stack and partition wall later inserted behind the central truss. A service bay was originally located at the left end but was not visible during inspection. The building retains substantial, well-preserved cruck trusses; the one between the parlour and hall features curved struts between the tie beam and cruck blades. The hall’s cruck-truss has a cambered tie-beam and collar with a King-post. An 18th-century chimney inserted immediately behind this truss has a wide fireplace with a chamfered timber lintel. To its right is a doorway leading to the former second bay of the hall, which had a bake-oven set against the south lateral wall. A cruck-truss between the hall and service room was not seen but is believed to be similar to the central truss.