Former cruck house in Tan-y-ffordd farmyard

This former cruck house is located in the farmyard of Tan-y-ffordd and dates back to an earlier period. It is constructed from local shaley quasi-rubble stonework and is mostly covered by an asbestos sheet roof. A portion of an early external chimney stack can still be seen on the north gable.

The building features two surviving bays of what was likely originally a three- or four-bay cruck house. Two cruck frames remain intact. The northern frame is complete, featuring a collar beam and a yoke, with the blades meeting at the apex in the typical Denbighshire style. Above the tie beam, there are wattle and daub panels, and the mortices of a lost post-and-panel partition can be seen in the underside, with the arris chamfered where the panels would have been. This tie beam connects to the north gable through a chamfered and stopped longitudinal beam.

The southern frame is incomplete, having been altered to accommodate a later central chimney and cut at the feet. This chimney serves a large fireplace that faces north and has a timber bressummer. Additionally, a later fireplace in the north gable has been walled up.