Aberffrydlan

Aberffrydlan is an L-shaped, two-storey house, likely dating from the 19th century, constructed of narrow blocks of random grey stone with traces of limewash. It comprises a western range and a slightly higher cross-wing to the right. The roof is renewed slate with a stone stack to the west end and a lateral stone stack to the wing, featuring a tall brick shaft. The house has good 19th-century two- or three-light wooden casement windows with transoms and margin glazing.

The western range is three windows wide, with the entrance positioned to the right, where it meets the cross-wing. The doorway is topped by a segmental head of tall stone voussoirs, leading to a fine boarded door with iron studs and strap hinges. This is protected by a 19th-century open gabled wooden porch on a low yellow brick sill, with moulded and decorated Jacobean-style timberwork. The windows are all three-light, the lower-storey windows featuring fine stone hoodmoulds, and the first-floor windows set beneath the eaves. The west gable end has no openings; it is built with courses of large river pebbles. The rear wall, built against a bank, is said to contain fabric dating back to the 15th century and evidence of a further lateral stack. There is a lean-to against the western range and a single-storey gabled wing towards the centre.

The cross-wing projects forward with a hipped roof and has been rebuilt above ground floor level in red brick with a plat band. It has one three-light window to the ground floor and two two-light windows to the upper storey. The east side features a twelve-pane hornless sash window to the upper storey, to the left of a large stone lateral stack. Adjoining it and slightly set-back, is a small single-storey range with a tall blue brick end stack, likely a former service unit. The front wall has been rebuilt and is now incorporated into a uPVC conservatory.

Inside, the front entrance opens into a stair-hall with a staircase leading to the rear. A doorway to the left leads into a large parlour which contains an exceptionally fine wooden coffered ceiling, comprising twelve compartments with deeply moulded longitudinal and transverse beams, and ovolo-mouldings to the joists within the panels. A large fireplace is located at the western end, featuring a moulded timber lintel in a similar style. One doorway is said to contain 16th/17th-century carved spandrels, possibly from a screen. The rooms within the cross-wing were not inspected but are said to have 18th-century detail.