Hendre

Hendre is a one and a half storey, three-unit house built from local granite rubble, featuring a rough plinth on the rear wall and roughly dressed quoins. The roof is made of Ffestiniog slate and has a tall stone axial stack. The main elevation faces south, with a doorway located in a gabled porch to the right of the central unit. The ground floor has modern timber casement windows, consisting of two and three lights, with similar windows above. The windows in the centre and left are set in swept dormers. There is some disturbance in the wall between the two left-hand windows on the ground floor, indicating alterations in this bay, where a continuous timber lintel was found during restoration work in 1990. The lower gable end retains earlier, probably 18th century, small-paned cast iron casements with four and five lights in pegged frames. There is a small, partially blocked entrance to the cellar below, and a doorway to the loft, which is now a window, in the upper gable. A rear outshut was added in 1990 using local granite and Ffestiniog slate.

The house has a three-unit plan, with two heated rooms on either side of the axial stack and an unheated room at the upper end. The entrance leads into the central room, which retains substantial remains of a post-and-panel partition that likely originally divided this room, presumed to be the hall, from a service room. The hall features a chamfered longitudinal beam and stop-chamfered joists, along with a rough chamfer on the bressumer of a large fireplace. At the lower end of the house, the second heated room has similar details in both the fireplace and ceiling, which includes two lateral beams with harts-tongue stops. In contrast, the current kitchen, which was formerly the buttery, has a roughly worked beam. The layout on the first floor has been altered, but an exposed truss at the upper end, above the partition, is of a relatively late type. The purlins in the lower bay are roughly worked chestnut, which contrasts with the adze-dressed oak found in the upper and central bays.