Neuadd Cynhinfa

A two-storey house, the early part half-timbered with close-set restored vertical timbering; the C16 west extension is framed in square panels above and is close-timbered below, with a jetty surviving on the north side. The C19 east extension is in roughly dressed uncoursed stone, partly whitewashed. Two walls of the west extension and the recent additional bay to the south are in uncoursed rubble with roughly dressed large quoins.

Slate roofs and rubble chimney stacks to hall and parlour; brick chimney to back kitchen. C19 casement windows generally, some with iron-framed opening lights. Entrance opposite the main chimney with rear door in the angle with the parlour. The recent south extension has a dormer window to east and to west, and a rooflight to west.

The hall, which was greatly reduced in size by the insertion of the chimney, retains its exceptional post and panel dais partition; the right hand doorway of this appears to have opened onto the solar stairs. The solar was over the inner room and together this represents the main surviving body of the medieval house, the lower end having been lost. There is a compass-drawn circular pattern on the dais partition, a feature which has been noted at the high seat position in other hall houses (regarded by some as an evil-eye talisman).

The hall was floored over in the C16 with stop-chamfered beams. The parlour was added at right angles to the hall as opposed to the more normal position beyond the hall chimney; the wall between hall and parlour was previously external and is therefore especially important as it is of the stud and panel type of close studding; it includes a camber-headed doorway.

The smoke-blackened truss over the hall indicates the former hall-house plan with open hearth. The central of the three substantial trusses that have survived has chamfered curved braces to the tie beam; the other two trusses are close-studded. Windbraces are retained.

The parlour has broadly chamfered and broach-stopped beams; this room was later divided into three rooms.