No.3 The Almshouses

No. 3 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 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 and has a symmetrical facade with seven bays, including advanced gabled wings at either end and a central porch section made of brick that is both storeyed and gabled.

The central porch has gable parapets with moulded sandstone copings and shaped kneelers, while the gabled wings are treated similarly and feature raised brick quoins. The 19th-century timber cross-windows have moulded mullions and transoms, 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 the passage, and above this arch is another sandstone plaque marking the 1963 restoration, with a single-light latticed window above it.

The rear elevation mirrors the front, although it originally had entrances to the right and left of the main section at the corners with the projecting wings. These entrances have been reduced 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 to the left and right, equipped with ribbed and boarded doors, as well as similar entrances on the sides that correspond to the original arrangement of the rear units. These entrances also have adjacent cross-windows as before, and beyond them are the former entrances to the front units, now with modern casement windows.