No.2 The Almshouses

No. 2 The Almshouses is part of a single-storey almshouse complex located in Llanrhaeadr, constructed from whitened rubble with buff sandstone and brown brick dressings, which are also now whitened. The building features a slate roof with four central brick chimneys, the upper sections of which have been rebuilt. The complex is designed in an H plan with a symmetrical facade that has seven bays, including advanced gabled wings at both ends and a storeyed, gabled central porch section made of brick. The porch has gable parapets with moulded sandstone copings and shaped kneelers, while the gabled wings also have similar features along with raised brick quoins.

The windows are 19th-century timber cross-windows with moulded mullions and transoms, fitted with latticed casements. Above the windows in the wings are fielded sandstone dedication plaques; the left plaque notes the date and circumstances of the foundation, while the right plaque commemorates the restoration in 1820. The central porch includes a depressed arch that leads into a passage, and above this arch is another sandstone plaque that records the restoration in 1963, with a single-light latticed window positioned above it.

The rear elevation mirrors the front, although it originally had entrances to the right and left of the main section, in the corners of the projecting wings. These entrances have been altered to small-pane modern casement windows. The rear porch gable is made of whitened rubble rather than brick and features a depressed stone arch. The passage has single entrances on both sides with ribbed and boarded doors, and similar entrances correspond to the original arrangement of the rear units. These entrances are accompanied by adjacent cross-windows as previously described, and beyond these are the reduced former entrances to the front units, which also have modern casement windows.