Maes Treylow

Maes Treylow is a timber-framed house, largely dating back to the 17th century, with a T-shaped plan. The eastern bay of the hall has been removed. The house suffered a fire, after which some sections were rebuilt in stone and rendered. The north gable of the cross wing slightly projects and features bargeboards on curved brackets. A 19th-century lean-to dairy is situated to the north of the former hall, and a glazed porch is attached to the south.

The roof is slate-covered, with two tall, squared, rendered stacks to the west of the cross wing, one with a flanking lean-to under an iron roof, and an offset brick stack to the south of the hall range. The first-floor windows in the hall range, and one in the north gable of the cross wing, are original 18th-century metal-framed casements set within dowelled wood frames with sways and swan-neck pulls. A 19th-century window with gauze infill and shutters is found in the dairy. All other windows are modern casements.

The house originally contained three main rooms on the ground floor, comprising the former hall and two rooms in the parlour wing. The present kitchen has a distinctive arrangement of beams with a transverse beam, large main joists, and smaller common joists, all deeply chamfered with draw stops. The former hall retains two main beams and two sets of intersecting main joists, similarly chamfered and stopped. Later alterations, dating to the 18th and 19th centuries, include boxing in some cross wing beams, the addition of a moulded chair rail, new stairs, and six-panelled doors. Evidence shows former stairs once rose from where the kitchen is now, the joists there having been trimmed accordingly. Seven main roof trusses remain, constructed with mortice and tenon joints, trenched purlins, and diagonally set ridge pieces; the upper chambers were formerly open to the roof space.

The hall block is defined by two closed tie-beam trusses, each with two diagonally set braces. The central truss has queen posts and curved braces from the wall post to the tie beam. The wall post and tie beam are visible in a bedroom and are chamfered with scroll stops. The north end truss of the cross wing has a cambered tie beam, king post, and eight pairs of diagonal braces. The adjacent truss is closed, defining the great chamber and features a cambered tie beam, collar, queen posts, and diagonal braces above the collar. The central truss, over what was once an open great chamber, displays chamfered scissor-braces fixed to short projecting ties and curved brackets; these are visible on the landing. The south end truss of the wing is highly decorative, with a cambered tie beam and square panels filled with curved quadrant braces.