Peniarth Uchaf

Peniarth Uchaf is a two-unit, storeyed lobby entry house that features partial timber framing, with some areas reconstructed in stone and brick. It has a Welsh slate roof topped by a central brick chimney stack, which has been rebuilt and has lost its original star-shaped form. The front elevation mainly showcases square-panelled timber framing to the right of the stack, with some remnants of close-studding visible. To the left of the stack, there is painted brickwork. The doorway is located in front of the chimney within a gabled porch, flanked by distinctive three-light mullioned and transomed windows that have small panes and lattice glazing above the transoms. There is a modern casement window in an earlier opening to the right. The first floor features three gabled dormers, with the left dormer containing a two-light horizontal sliding sash window, a two-light casement above the porch, and modern glazing to the right. Remnants of close studding can be found at the rear and in the right-hand gable apex, where the tie-beam is under-built in stone. A single-storey kitchen wing is located at the rear.

The house follows a lobby entry plan, with the entrance positioned against the main stack. To the right of the entrance is a hall that originally had two small inner rooms beyond, although this layout has been somewhat modified. To the left of the chimney is the rebuilt parlour bay. The hall features paired stop-chamfered longitudinal beams and chamfered joists, along with a fine post-and-panel partition that displays a good collection of carpenter's marks. There are doors at either end of the partition, with the rear door having a shaped doorhead. A chimney staircase and a small bench screen are situated between the entrance and the fireplace. Although the arrangement of the inner rooms has been modified, the position of an earlier partition is still discernible on the longitudinal chamfered beam. The roof construction, which dates from the original hall-house phase, includes substantial tie-beam trusses over the partition and in front of the fireplace, which was the original entrance to the hall. These trusses feature massive cambered and chamfered tie beams, with one truss displaying unusual zig-zag decoration on the struts between the tie beam and collar. There is a closed truss over the partition, and the hall bay is distinguished by further enrichment of the timbers, featuring chamfered purlins that contrast with the plainer timbers of the chimney bay.