Rhiwfelen

Rhiwfelen is a house comprising a 17th-century core with later alterations and extensions. The original house, facing northeast, is a single-storey building with an attic. A two-storey cross-wing, originally a 17th-century porch, projects to the right, partially obscuring the northern part of the original house. When inspected in 2005, the original house still had some timber framing with lath infill to the front, which has been rendered over, and a plinth. The rear and gable end walls are of rubble stone, and the roof is covered in graded slate.

Behind the porch wing, the original main range contains a stone stack with two diagonally set shafts. The entrance to the main range has a boarded door with two small lights above it. There are three casement windows with two lights to the left, of irregular sizes and with iron or wooden glazing. A blocked window is present in the upper storey of the southeast gable end. Two wooden windows with two lights are in the rear elevation, the one on the left having a dripstone. The porch wing has a stone stack to its gable end, a blocked ground floor doorway, and two small wooden windows to the first floor, with a single window to the right-hand return.

An 18th-century range, facing northwest, is two storeys high and three windows wide, built of random stone under a slate roof with a stone stack on the right. The front of this range incorporates the northwest gable end of the earlier house in the left-hand bay, and the left-hand return contains a tall, blocked opening. A central entrance is sheltered by an open gabled wooden porch with decorated barge boards, inside which is a panelled door. Features include segmental brick heads over the openings, and 12-pane hornless sash windows. The lower left-hand window has a slate-hung lintel, reflecting the sloping ground. The windows to the right are lower as the ground falls in that direction. A lean-to service range is attached to the rear, with a stone corner stack and a wide window.

Inside the original range, the hall retains a surviving cruck truss and two lateral ceiling beams, one originally supported by an ovolo-moulded post which is no longer in place. The 17th-century parlour has a ceiling with two deeply chamfered cross-beams with lambs-tongue stops, and similar joists. To the right is a large fireplace with an elaborate plaster overmantel. Wooden settles were noted during the 2005 inspection. A doorway on the left side of the fireplace leads into the cross-wing, which was not seen during the inspection. Above the hall is a timber-framed partition dividing the space into two unheated inner rooms, which were probably originally a single room. The larger room to the east was a dairy with a salting slab; the foot of a second cruck is visible near the end wall. Some of the partition panels retain wattle infill.

The 18th-century wing contains a central dog-leg staircase with a vase-shaped newel and a ramped handrail. A parlour is to the right of the entrance, featuring a lugged fireplace and a six-panelled door. The principal bedroom is above the parlour, with a dentilled fireplace, above a smaller room over the entrance.