Coleg y Groes (The College)

Roughly coursed rubble with high plinth; slate roof with yellow brick gable end and axial stacks. Symmetrically planned about a central entrance, originally laid out with 3 dwellings to either side, facing inwards. Advanced gabled entrance bay with high segmental archway to gateway, with inscription stone above. 3 x4-pane sash windows aligned with similar windows in hipped dormers in the roof to either side of the entrance. Courtyard elevation originally set out with 3 single unit dwellings to either side of the entrance: Left hand range has blocked outer doorway, the 2 surviving doorways have timber gabled porches. 4-pane sash window to left, and canted bay window (a later addition) to the right. Similar porch to inner doorway of right hand range, with canted bay window, 4-pane sash window and blocked door to right. Lean-to porch added in angle with single storeyed cross wing which forms the E boundary of the compound, and which was formerly the bakehouse. It is balanced by a low toilet block to the W.

The original C18 internal layout survives substantially intact with small modifications consistent with changing use: each of the original dwellings had a single room on each floor: chamfered spine beams in lower rooms, deep fireplaces (some blocked), with stairs winding in the angle of the chinmney breast (some now removed).