Gwaelod

Two-storey 2-window cottage, timber-framed under a slate roof with brick end stacks. Lower unit adjoining to L end. The timber-framing consists of 2 tiers of small-scantling close-studding with brick nogging painted white. The entrance is offset slightly L of centre; doorcase with canopy supported on scrolled brackets containing a half-glazed panelled door. Sixteen-pane horned sash windows in moulded frames flanking entrance, aligned on each floor. The W gable end is weather-boarded and contains a wooden small-pane top-hung window in timber surround to R of centre; these features were renewed c2000. To the rear, the timber-framing is as front; planked door to L of centre within an open lean-to porch; wooden small-pane windows flanking doorway and to 1st floor, all 2-light casements except that to bottom R which is top-hung. The lower unit adjoining to the E was rebuilt in the late C20, and is of white-painted brick to the ground floor, weather-boarded above. Single small-pane light to each storey, former doorway to far L partly infilled with glazing. Its rear elevation is of brick, with a late C20 wooden small-pane window to each storey. Further window to E gable, beneath which is a shallow brick lean-to.

The front entrance leads into the living room to L, the ceiling with a shallow-chamfered spine beam and plain joists. Small fireplace to L with timber lintel; plain straight timber stair to rear. Opposite the fireplace is a close-studded partition, now open, which leads to 2 inner rooms. Fireplace against W end wall infilled and with an aga/rayburn in front. To the E, and reached from the living room, is a service room with lower floor level. It is unheated and has 2 deep stop-chamfered spine beams. To the 1st floor, most of the timber-work is concealed, but the E room retains 2 pairs of old purlins.