Aberllefenni House

Aberllefenni House is a substantial 3-storey, 3-bay commercial building dated to the 18th century, facing onto Heol Penrallt. A separate range running parallel to the main building, linked by modern extensions, is not of group value. The front façade has a ground floor combined shop and office display. To the right is a single bay set back under a roof with deeply overhanging, bracketed eaves. The building is roughcast, with a slate roof. The upper floors have replacement uPVC sash windows with plain projecting cills. The ground floor display front is particularly fine, with a full-width bracketed cornice over an offset door to the right, a single window to the right, and three windows to the left. A 6-panel door is set back in a panelled recess, with a stencilled overlight reading “Aberllefenni House.” Raised stall risers and cills feature on the windows, which are separated by engaged Tuscan style columns, paired at either end. Cast-iron spear-head railings on a low dwarf wall enclose a small courtyard to the front, with urn finials to the gate posts (the gates are missing). A modern shop sign is above the display front to the left. A single bay is visible in the left return, where it meets an adjoining building, featuring an attic window. The right-hand gable has a small-pane replaced sash window to the attic. The set-back single bay has an entrance to upper storey accommodation with a replacement door on the ground floor, and replacement windows on the upper storeys. Two further windows are present on the second storey, along with an attic window in the gable return.

At the rear is a two-storey, single-bay hearse house, opening onto Church Place. It has rubble walls, roughcast, and a slate roof. The hearse house features double boarded doors with wrought iron fittings on the ground floor. A horizontal lintel sits directly above a boarded door on the first storey. Internally, Aberllefenni House is reported to retain shutter linings to the ground floor shop windows and to have utilized slate for fittings throughout. The hearse house is known to have blocked doors on the ground and first floors, formerly leading to adjoining accommodation.