Porth

Porth is a building with a complex history, originally dating back to the 15th century, with significant additions in the late 19th century. The original core of the building runs parallel to the street and extends to the rear of number 67. It now forms the central point of a near-symmetrical facade, flanked to the right by a late 19th-century wing and to the left by a single-window range projecting from the main roofline. The building is faced in roughcast render with slate roofs. A lateral stack is located on the rear wall, and a gable end stack is on the street-facing gable of the 19th-century wing.

The main east-facing elevation features a doorway to the right of the central gable, set within a gabled porch, flanked by windows within smooth, rendered surrounds. To the rear, a projection alongside the rear wall stack incorporates a section of timber balustrading with turned balusters, possibly a remnant of a former staircase. A doorway and lean-to are located to the left of the stack, with a modern window above. A short wing beyond adjoins the north end of Mill Cottage. The elevation facing Clwyd Street is the gabled front of the late 19th-century wing, featuring a former shopfront offset to the right, with a blocked doorway and a wide window beneath a continuous fascia, with pilasters on either side. There are two renewed windows in the upper storey.

Inside the main entrance, a café occupies the original range. The ceiling is planked without joists, with wide floorboards supported on plain beams, which are likely reused. A modern staircase leads to the upper storey of the original range, which contains a 15th-century solar. This space is characterised by two cruck blades, at the southwest and northeast angles, relating to two cruck trusses. There are reports of cusped windbraces above the ceiling. The roof was ceiled at collar level, probably around 1600, featuring a central, deep-chamfered spine-beam with ornate hollow moulded stops and a plaster ceiling cornice. A small open truss sits between the cruck-trusses, with bases of rafters visible against the north and south walls. A section of the original external north wall is visible within the Victorian addition; it is close-studded and contains a timber-mullioned three-light window. Good quality wood panelling adorns the walls, likely dating to the 17th or 18th century. The bathroom to the south may be located where the original staircase was situated, as the panelling is said to extend down to the ground floor, and is adjacent to the external timber balustrading. To the left and rear of the café is a room connected to Mill Cottage to the south. Inside, oriented east to west, is a timber entrance arch believed to be linked to the medieval mill; this consists of a narrow pointed chamfered arch, with part of a wider arch to the left, possibly for a cart. At right angles to the right is a panel of wattle and daub. The partition shared with Mill Cottage is box-framed with some brick nogging, and the upper storey retains part of a cruck blade.