Penisarplwyf

Penisarplwyf is a 17th-century building, dated 1641, designed in an L-plan. It is constructed of rubble stone, with some parts rendered. The gable end of the southeast wing was rebuilt in 1885. The building features a slate roof, a rubble end stack on the wing, and a large projecting lateral stack on the north side with a roof gablet. The south and west elevations have 19th and 20th-century random fenestration, while the north and east walls retain 17th-century mullion windows, which are diamond-shaped, except for one window with ovolo mouldings that lights the staircase. There are two modern doors; one on the south side likely replaces the original, and the other on the northeast is a recent addition.

Inside, the building boasts a remarkably fine and largely intact 17th-century interior with detailed joinery. The principal partition walls are constructed of post and panel, except for the one separating the pantry and dairy at the north end, which features a unique local style. This partition consists of large square-panel timber framing with panels infilled with boards slotted between thin chamfered muntins. All doorheads are rounded, and the date 1641 is carved into the doorhead between the two main rooms on the ground floor. Most of the original boarded doors, hung on gudgeon pins, are still in place. A door with carved decoration that was previously located at the foot of the stairs has been rehung in an attic partition. The interior also includes good quality chamfered and ogee-stopped beams and joists, an original oak stair with a thin newel post that rises through two storeys, and a staircase with sides partly infilled with crude boarding and partly with stave-type balustrading. The lateral fireplace is currently blocked, while the fireplace in the wing is a late 19th-century feature with a brick arched opening.