Penmaes

Penmaes is a farmhouse, dating from the earlier 19th century. The exterior is white-painted stucco with a slate roof and stone end stacks. The house is two storeys and has an attic. The front elevation is irregular, with flat eaves and earlier 19th century cambered-headed sash windows with stone sills. The upper windows are four 16-pane sashes, while below are two tripartite 4-12-4-pane sashes, one on each side of a four-panel door. The door, which has a small leaded hood on brackets, is in the third bay; the window to the right is aligned with the fourth window above, but the window to the left is set between the first and second windows above. The left end has two 20th-century loft windows. To the left, in the end of the rear outshut, is a door with a 16-pane sash window to its left and a casement pair window above. The rear has a long, plain-tiled roof slope with two tall, rubble stone chimneys: one on the slope to the left of centre and another, much taller, on the eaves to the right. A small catslide dormer is positioned centrally. The rear wall is of whitewashed rubble and contains a brick cambered-headed casement pair window to the right of centre, a door in a lean-to porch to the left of centre, and an angle to a single-storey rear range with a brick end stack. The right end is of whitewashed rubble with a casement pair window to the attic and a large tripartite sash window to the first and ground floors, all with stone voussoirs. A straight joint marks the outshut to the right, which has one first-floor window. Attached to the rear north-east corner is a small, square, former dovecote with a pyramid roof and a pyramid-roofed, stone-tiled timber lantern, both stone-tiled. The dovecote has a cambered-headed south door with stone voussoirs and a window on each floor to the east. The interior was not inspected.