Llannerch-y-Cawr

A one-and-a-half storey longhouse built into a slope with the house at the upper end. Of limewashed rubble-stone walls with boulder footings, and a stone tile roof with square stone ridge stack. The main doorway is immediately R of the stack and has a replaced boarded door. To its L are a large renewed horned sash window lighting the hall, and a smaller renewed sash at the end lighting the parlour. Gabled roof dormers with 2-light casements are above the doorway and to the L. To the R of the main doorway, the original cow house has a doorway with renewed door (that opened to an outshut now removed) and a small ventilation strip further R.

In the L gable end, the upper part of which is weatherboarded, is an added attic doorway. To the rear the house has a horned sash window to the R lighting the former dairy, and a small stair light in line with the stack. To its L is a small 2-light window lighting the outer room. The cow house has a full-height opening with replaced door and is flanked by small openings. Above and to the R of the doorway is a roof dormer with 2-light casement. Set back at the L end is a stable door under a wooden lintel, and a loft doors above.

The main door opens to a small lobby with cobbled floor. To the L, the hall retains 2 pairs of cruck trusses and later cross beams with stepped stops. The fireplace has a timber lintel and inserted late C19 range, to the L of which is a stone winding stair. A simple late C15 full-height post-and-panel screen has doorways with segmental heads opening to the parlour and dairy, which are set at a higher level than the hall. The ground-floor rooms all have flagged floors. The stair gives access to the attic over the house and to an additional room over the cow house. Above the main part of the house are 2 attic rooms separated by the original hall screen.

A timber-framed partition encloses a small outer room with a fireplace backing on to the hall fireplace. This has a wooden lintel with a segmental head cut in. The cow house retains an axially aligned cobbled floor. Added stairs lead into the loft.