Ty Brith

Ty Brith is a rectangular, two-storey house of timber-framed construction, partially encased in brick and rubble, dating back several centuries. It stands on a rubble plinth that is raised and battered on the downhill front gable. The roof is slate-covered, with a squat 19th-century rubble chimney in the centre and a small brick chimney at the rear gable.

The downhill-facing bay retains its exposed timber framing. The gable features decorative lozenges within lozenges, along with a band of three blind quatrefoils positioned between the ground and first-floor windows. These are three-light mullioned windows with 19th-century quarry leading. A bracketed label and sill are present on the ground floor, while the first floor has a moulded, projecting sill. The jettied gable is supported at the corners by further 20th-century brackets, and features 19th-century pierced, wavy bargeboards. A three-light window, matching the style of those on the front gable, is found on the north return. Further along the north side, the wall is constructed of local sandstone rubble. The south side is largely composed of scribed, rendered brick.

A centrally located entrance has a 20th-century boarded door and a simple rectangular overlight. Flanking the entrance are two modern casement windows set within 19th-century openings. Above the entrance to the left is a blocked 19th-century window, and to the right, a further modern window.

The rear half of the north side is occupied by a 19th-century one-and-a-half-storey outshut built of whitened brick. It has a pair of 19th-century eight-pane casements on its front face; the one on the left is original, and the one on the right is a modern copy. Both have segmental heads with painted, counter-changed voussoirs in black and white. A plain modern casement is located under the eaves above the right-hand window. The east return of the outshut has an arched two-light leaded window on the upper floor, while the west return, flush with the rear gable, has a boarded loading bay with stopped-chamfered framing.

The upper gable displays exposed timber framing, including the tie-beam, collar, and raking struts, with modern scribing and some punched decoration to the panels; plain bargeboards are present. A boarded door with a plain rectangular overlight is situated below a modern wooden casement window.

Inside, the ground-floor ceilings have stopped-chamfered main beams and ogee-stopped and chamfered joists. A central stack originally divided the space into two chambers, with the eastern chamber (likely a former parlour) now containing a modern fireplace set in a reduced opening. The western chamber has 19th-century brick partitioning on the west end, dividing the space into a main room, a subsidiary room, and a lobby. A wide fireplace retains its original bressummer, though the underside has been shaved (chamfering removed). A 19th-century straight-flight wooden stair is located to the right of the fireplace; the newels are plain, and the original stick balusters have been replaced with modern ironwork.