Bryndraenog

Bryndraenog is a Grade I listed building comprising a U-shaped, two-storey house with a hall and gabled wings. The structure is built of pebble-dashed and rubble stone walls, with a slate roof and brick stacks serving the wings. Windows are predominantly two-light casements set within earlier openings.

The east front features a two-storey gabled porch positioned left of centre, which is open-fronted in the lower storey, supported on timber posts and lintel. The boarded door to the passage bay is fitted with studs and strap hinges. To the right of the porch stands a tall square-headed four-light transomed hall window with ogee-headed wooden tracery. Further right is an added short parlour wing with a lateral external stack, rebuilt in brick above the eaves. Its gable end contains a three-light window in an earlier wider opening, with above it a four-light wooden mullioned and transomed window featuring ovolo mouldings. The north wing gable end displays a similar window under a hood mould in the lower storey, with the window above having been replaced by a three-light iron-framed casement in a similarly hooded opening. The south wing has three-light replaced casements in both storeys.

The north wall of the north wing forms a four-window front to a separate dwelling, with windows set under concrete lintels. A central boarded door with two-light casements is present, except at the right end where the window has boarded shutters. A vertical joint marks the boundary with an added stable and granary. This structure has a stone segmental-headed doorway left of centre with a boarded door and two loft openings beneath the eaves. The gable end is weatherboarded, with a wide doorway on the right side.

The south wall of the south wing displays a five-window elevation with uneven nineteenth-century and twentieth-century fenestration, including an upper-storey window in an older opening and French doors at the lower right. Further left, an extension has been added and brought slightly forward, featuring two three-light casements in each storey. The south wing has a further twentieth-century extension to its gable end.

The courtyard elevation of the hall range displays two three-light casements in the lower storey and two-light casements above. At the right end is a glazed door within a slight projection occupying the position of the hall passage bay, with a small window above. The north wing's two-window elevation includes a doorway to the left, two-light and one-light lower-storey windows and two-light upper-storey windows. A vertical joint separates the wing from the stable and granary, which has inserted wide boarded doors, above which sits the segmental head of an earlier doorway. To its left are stone steps with concrete-renewed treads leading to a boarded loft door; to the right are two loft openings. A later flight of steps with replaced concrete treads has been added to the outer side of the original stairs. The three-window south wing features two-light casements and a replaced door at the right, where the wing was lengthened.

Internally, the three-bay hall retains its moulded base crucks with arched-brace trusses. Concealed by a plaster ceiling are three tiers of cusped windbraces, arcades of trefoiled ogee tracery above the collar beams, and subsidiary arched-brace trusses. The passage bay contains a short section of castellated wooden bressumer inside the east door, though obscured by an inserted gallery dated 1636, which features stout turned balusters. A straight stair has similar balusters but sawn flat on the inner side, with wooden panelling at either end of the gallery. The south wing contains a hall with fireplace and timber lintel, with a plain joist-beam ceiling. Its east wall retains a section of exposed timber framing. The former solar above, now subdivided, retains three tiers of windbraces. The chamber over the porch has an arched-brace roof with cusped struts.