5, Hendre Bach

Nos 1-6 Hendre Bach, Llanelidan

Hendre Bach is a terrace of six cottages in local slatey stone with some random admixture of limestone. Although no. 1 and other parts may be older buildings refurbished, the whole is one integrated late-C19 scheme of farm and estate workers cottages. Nos. 6 and 5 at the left are a symmetrical pair, nos. 4 and 3 are an unequal pair with a lower roof level and paired central doorways, no. 2 is a double fronted cottage with two dormers, and no. 1 is a larger cottage set at right angles, with a hipped gable to the front, and a return three-window elevation presenting a superior appearance towards Nantclwyd.

The quoins and reveals of nos. 1 to 4 are formed in brickwork toothed into the stonework, and the sills and lintels of all six cottages are in limestone dressed with a pecked finish. The roofs are slate with red tile ridges; the chimneys of yellow brickwork with decorative features in red brickwork. The barge-boards and eaves fascia of nos 5 and 6 are wave-moulded.

The front elevation windows are of nine panes, with unequal sashes. The north-facing windows of no. 1 are large pairs of lattice-glazed casements, the upper casements here being within dormers. Boarded doors.