Friends Meeting House (Cwrt Plas-yn-dre)

This is a largely timber-framed house, originally two storeys and three bays, dating from the 17th or 18th century. It retains features suggesting it was originally a much larger hall. The building incorporates stone end walls, with the right gable being timber-framed to its apex. The roof is covered in small slates with deep verges and exposed purlins. The ground floor framing is square-panelled, while the jettied first floor has unusual interlocking herring-bone decorative framing, along with moulded jetty beams and distinctive brackets. The ground floor features a central entrance with a plank door, flanked by two-light timber mullioned windows with leaded lights on vine-scroll brackets. One of these windows may be original, and believed to have served as a template for the others. A stone bay on the right incorporates reused masonry from the original building, with a stone mullioned window. An external stone staircase leads to a plank door on the left. The projecting mullioned windows of the first floor are late 19th-century reproductions based on recorded original windows. The rear elevation is similar to the front, and includes a large, stepped lateral chimney with a gablet linking it to the main roof, plus reused masonry incorporating arcaded stone decoration. Fragments of masonry from the original building are reset in the right-hand gable, including the head of a fire window. A modern lean-to extension has been added to the west end.

Inside, the building has three bays, open to the roof, divided by two 19th-century trusses. The aisle truss to the left of the entrance has a post morticed into the principals with braces rising to a tie forming a semicircular arch. This is likely an imaginative reconstruction of the original hall’s roof truss, whose timber arch was considered particularly interesting. A simpler, collared second truss has angle struts. The roof has plain chamfered purlins, which may be reused from the original building. The 19th-century boarded roof is divided into panels by roll-moulded beams and decorative bosses. Dentilled wall plates, some of which are original on the south side, are present. A gallery, possibly incorporating late 17th-century timberwork along the south wall, includes turned balusters on a dentilled bressumer. A stone fireplace is located in the rear right, with a blocked fire window in the gable. An entrance lobby and much introduced panelling of various dates are present, some possibly based on the "linen panelled framing" noted as a feature of the hall in 1875.