Penybont & Glanyrafon, including forecourt wall

Distinctively Arts and Crafts one-and-a-half-storeyed house. Stone built with some concrete dressings; slate roof, overhanging eaves and stone chimney stacks. The 3-bay front has projecting central gable which is asymmetrical and swept down to the L in the style of C F A Voysey; the gable is dated 1907 with the initials MLV. Small-pane casement glazing, with central transoms, including 3-light windows to the centre. The main entrance is offset beneath the gable. A cambered arch and hoodmould with splayed R-hand jamb opens onto the porch flanked by small hall windows, the R-hand of which is set at an angle within the splay; boarded door. Smaller, slate-hung attic gables to either side. Left-hand gable end has a similar 2-light window to each storey and was previously asbestos-tile-hung. Two-window R-hand gable end with small 4-pane windows, beyond which is a stone wall at a skewed angle connecting with the coach-house and containing a round arch that leads through to the rear of the properties. At the rear of Penybont is a lean-to at L end and 2 flat-headed dormers to R; modern porch added. Between this and the neighbouring property is a traditional post and paling fence. Glanyrafon is attached at right-angles at the S end and its front elevation steps forward from the L gable end of Penybont; this part of the group has been modernised with new glazing and an extension at the W end.

Forecourt wall: Penybont is set back behind a contemporary forecourt wall that is stepped up the slope and runs along the main front and R-hand gable end; to the L it turns to meet the central gable and then starts again beyond the L gable end forming a boundary with the forecourt of Glanyrafon. This wall has a stone base with concrete coping, above which is laid a timber balustrade punctuated by stone piers. Timber gates at main entrance and beside the coach-house.

Penybont retains its original simple Arts and Crafts character including the ironwork detail to the windows and boarded doors; moulded architraves and brick fireplaces. Entrance is onto a small hallway from which rises the central timber staircase; behind this the flanking ground floor rooms have broad recesses, that to the L is lit by a small window. Upstairs, one room has an angled fireplace (now blocked) and another retains a cupboard built into the side of the gable.