Hendre

Aligned against the slope, Hendre is a one and a half storeyed, 3-unit house of local granite rubble with rough plinth in rear wall and roughly dressed quoins; Ffestiniog slate roof with tall stone axial stack. Main elevation faces south, with doorway in gabled porch at right of central unit. Modern timber casement windows of 2 and 3 lights to ground floor, with similar windows above, those to centre and left in swept dormers(?). Some disturbance in the wall between the two left hand windows of the ground floor suggests alteration in this bay (where a continuous timber lintel was discovered during restoration work in 1990). Lower gable end retains earlier (probably C18) small-paned cast iron casements of 4 and 5 lights in pegged frames. Small (partially blocked) entrance to cellar below. Doorway to loft (now a window) in upper gable. Rear outshut added in 1990 using local granite and Ffestiniog slate.

The house has a 3 unit plan, comprising two heated rooms either side of the axial stack, and an unheated room at the upper end. Entrance into the central room, against the substantial remains of a post-and panel partition dividing this room (presumably originally the hall) from a service room. Hall has chamfered longitudinal beam and stop-chamfered joists. Rough chamfer to bressumer of large fireplace. At the lower end of the house, the second heated room has similar detail, both to fireplace and ceiling, which has two lateral beams with harts-tongue stops. By contrast, the present kitchen (the former buttery) has a roughly worked beam. Layout at first floor altered, but exposed truss at upper end (above the partition) is of relatively late type; purlins of lower bay are roughly worked chestnut, contrasting with the adze-dressed oak in the upper and central bays.