Sheephouse

Sheephouse is a two-storey building with attics, featuring rendered stone and slate roofs, and is largely covered with Virginia creeper. At the back of the hall, there is an old chimneystack with two square stone shafts set diagonally. The windows are 19th and 20th century wooden and metal casements. The front door, facing south, is late 19th century, consisting of two heights of triple gothic panels with four-centred heads, set in an older and wider oak frame that has been adapted. To the left side of the front, there is a catslide roof with pierced gothic eaves boards, which are matched by bargeboards on the eastern end. A lean-to, possibly from the 18th or 19th century, has been added along part of the rear.

Inside, the drawing room features a pair of ovolo-moulded ceiling beams and end-plates. The staircase, which leads continuously to the attics, is late 18th century, made of oak, and includes beaded square newel-posts and a shaped handrail. The lower runs of the staircase incorporate thick pierced splat balusters that were removed within living memory from Penyrwrlodd and are datable to 1650, along with large ovolo-moulded newel-posts topped with vase-shaped finials. In the wing, the cellar is located under the rear room only, and the three rooms in the wing have different floor levels. The two original rooms contain deep-chamfered ceiling beams without stops, while the front room has beams with much smaller chamfers.

Above, the hall chamber features ovolo-moulded beams similar to those below. The original L-shaped roofs have collared trusses and meet the catslide roof at an open truss.