Pontsian Stores

Pontsian Stores is a range of buildings comprising a house, stores and shop, built for D H Evans, known as 'Y Siopwr Mawr' of Gwynfryn. A woollen mill was added to the east end around 1890. The western end of the building may be older. The structure is built of rubble stone with yellow brick dressings and has slate roofs. It extends over 17 bays and is two storeys high. The eaves have paired brackets, and the roof is hipped at the angles. A raised coped gable marks the original eastern end, before the woollen mill was added. A parallel rear range also exists.

Moving from east to west, the range begins with a single window end wall of the house, followed by a three-window house with end stacks. This section features sash windows in cambered yellow-brick frames, and a central arched doorway with a fanlight. A three-window former shop follows, with similar 12-pane sashes above, but large four-light shop windows are present below, on either side of a camber-headed doorway with an overlight. The shop windows have transoms and arched heads to their individual lights. A series of 12-pane sash windows are spaced closely on both sides of the doorway with a fanlight; the window on the right was inserted later. A loading door with an eaves gablet is next, followed by a three-bay warehouse range with paired casements above and broad doors below, both with cambered heads. One door on the left features a former Post Office entry, with a half-glazed door and shop window within the original arch. To the right of the right-hand doorway is a low arched entry, said to be where the leat powering the turbine passes through. Yellow brick quoins are present on the original end wall. The mill addition, matching the style, has five bays, with loading doors on each floor to the left, followed by four casement pairs above a ground-floor window. An altered wide doorway and an original cambered-headed broad doorway are also present.

The house at the western end, called Dolydd, has a front with a four-bay ground floor. It features 12-pane sashes and a door with an overlight in the third bay. Similar first-floor sashes are above the left window and door. The window heads are made of cut stone, differing from the yellow brick elsewhere. A north end stack is present, along with paired brackets to the eaves. The first and fourth windows of the ground floor were originally doors.