Clawdd-y-dre

Clawdd-y-dre is a detached house of brick and timber frame construction with a slate roof, projecting eaves and brick chimneys. It dates principally to 1726, the date carved in the tympanum of the central porch doorway, though it incorporates earlier elements and has received later additions.

The main house is two storeys with an attic, arranged in three bays across its front. The central feature is a red brick projecting gable above a wide porch doorway with a moulded frame bearing the date and initials 'HW: 1726' flanked by crude stylised plants. The double doors have three fielded panels each. Above the porch is a raised band, a cross-window to the first floor, another raised band, and a lunette with radiating tracery lighting the attic. The outer bays have whitewashed brick with raised bands. Multi-paned iron cross-windows with cambered heads occupy the first floor outer bays and ground floor left. A modern small-paned sash window stands to the ground floor right.

The south end wall is slate-hung and contains a long attic window and 16-pane sashes to both first and ground floors. The north end gable has one iron cross-window to the attic, two to the first floor and one to the ground floor right. Attached to the left of this gable is a small two-storey wing of early 18th-century date arranged on a single-room plan. This wing has a brick shaped gable similar to that at Old Castle Farm and an iron casement-pair with cambered head to the first floor. Its road front includes a blank opening above a late 19th to early 20th-century rectangular bay window with casement lights.

A cross-window with leaded glazing appears on the north return of the main house at ground floor level.

The north-east rear wing is timber-framed, with timber exposed in its north wall and a brick chimney. A single-storey addition in red brick dates to 1989 and has a shaped north gable and a door matching the 1726 front door, marked 'DJM 1989'. The brick east gable of the wing contains a cambered-headed casement-pair with raised brick sill to the attic, above a small Venetian window of four casements with iron opening lights and a glazed arch over the centre two. A raised band sits above ground floor two-casement windows. The rear of the main house is timber-framed with posts exposed in the first-floor brickwork and has a single-storey 20th-century parallel range with a parallel roof. A late 20th-century conservatory adjoins.

Interior features are extensive. The porch has an iron bar to the back of the door. The south room contains very heavy beams, chamfered with run-out stops and squared joists. Panelled shutters serve the west and south windows. Two painted 18th-century arched alcoves are set diagonally in the corners with curved shelves and ribbed heads. The chimneypiece is probably early 20th-century work.

A four-panel door opens into the north room, which has an inglenook-type recess on its south wall. This is panelled with oak panels bearing a lozenge pattern matching those found on the screen gates in the church. Some panels may be genuine 16th-century work, though most are probably late 19th-century made to match. The fireplace has a shouldered surround and 19th-century tiles. An oak panelled door of eight panels with scribed mouldings in 17th-century style, fitted with HL-type wrought iron hinges, leads into the small north addition. A deep plastered opening between the front and rear may represent a former inglenook. The rear staircase is early 19th-century, constructed of an unusual wood said to be sycamore, with square balusters, a turned newel and ramped rail. Heavy timber-framing is exposed in the rear walls of the front range, now internal, with diagonal bracing. The north-east kitchen has framing exposed on its west wall and a fireplace on the north. The south-east added room has a timber lintel to its fireplace and a screen to the late 20th-century conservatory incorporating re-used linenfold panelling of high quality with traceried heads to the openings.

The first floor shows heavy timber-framing to the rear of the front range and to the north-west wing. A passage between the north-west and north-east parts has heavy framing on its east side and a scribed plank door on the west. A cross-window at the passage end has a pane inscribed 'Ivor Jones Glazier Montgomery'. The north-west room bears various signatures on the outside of its panes. Massive timber-framing appears on the south wall. The south room contains 18th-century fielded panelling on the north wall above the chimneybreast, a 19th-century marble chimneypiece and a chamfered and stopped axial beam.

The roof trusses have collars and angled struts above. Evidence suggests that roofs have been raised.