Cowhouse Range to S. of Rhandregynwen

Late C15 former hall house, now cowhouse, with the external walls entirely rebuilt in brick and weatherboarding, tin roof.

Cruck framed, three-unit plan with two-bay hall. Four trusses survive, the lower end-truss had gone, the wall plates survive in the main and exposed mortices on the undersides show the positions of the studs in the former timber-framed walls. All the cruck trusses have one piece, full height blades, morticed and tenoned together, the purlins are diagonally set, the ridge is diagonally set into a notch cut into the apex, windbraces were morticed into the hall and upper-room purlins. There is smoke blackening throughout.

The upper room end truss has been cut off above the collar; about lm in front is a louvre truss set on the upper purlins. The upper room, or dais end, partition is box-framed with two diagonal braces above tie beam. The central hall truss has chamfered blades and arch-braces; one of two diagonal braces survives above the collar and a small yoke is set below the apex. A tie beam has been inserted into this truss at a later date and subsequently removed. The passage partition truss retains its upper collar and mortices for two lower ties and for panel infill are visible.