Maes-y-Groes Bella

L-shaped, uncoursed rubble construction, two storeys with attic. Renewed slate roof. Front elevation: each floor has two 3-light mullioned windows with renewed sandstone dressings. To left large rubble gable chimney, to right a rubble corner stack rises the full height of the building and heats a first floor room. Both gables have upstanding verges and copings. Right hand gable-end elevation, land falls way to the S giving an additional storey in the form of a cellar. The cellar was formerly reached through the house but is now entered from a wooden door. Single 3-light mullioned window with sandstone dressings to ground and first floor, inserted in C20. Attic storey window C20 addition. To east rubble two storey extension, slate roof, C20 windows. Left hand gable end, contains original door backing onto the chimney. C20 window to first floor.

Hall contains deep fireplace with bressummer above which is set an axial beam. The further end of this axial beam is supported on a flat bracket against a post and panel partition which separates the hall from the parlour. The parlour contains a C20 fireplace, in its original position and an axial beams runs from the centre of the window. The staircase is a C20 insertion not in its original position. The eastern extension contains a large rubble stack dating to the C18 remodelling of the house when this area was used for services. At first floor level there is an late C16 or early C17 open arched braced truss with cusped struts. The room above parlour has a timber-framed partition the upper part of which has been converted in the C20 into an attic bedroom reached by a step ladder.