Capel Dewi Uchaf Farmhouse

Capel Dewi Uchaf Farmhouse is a two-storey dwelling with an attic entirely within the roof space. The front and left end-elevation are rendered and whitened, while the rear and right elevation expose rubble masonry. A steep-pitched slate roof with tile ridge is supported by rendered end chimneys with dripstones, and one mid-chimney. The left end-chimney is very large, housing the flues of two sizeable hearths.

The front elevation is symmetrically designed around the entrance and stairs, with three windows arranged vertically. Both upper and lower windows are 12-pane sash windows, all restored. A small additional window sits above the porch. The porch itself is a recently added large slate-roofed structure with timber framing on plinth walls. The right end elevation is plain, featuring a small chimney projection and a restored attic window. The left end elevation has a small attic window and a small upper-storey window. The rear elevation has been much restored; the first and last upper windows and the stairs window are probably in their original openings. These and three others are 12-pane sash windows, all restored. Five skylights punctuate the roof. A large, low modern extension in tandem at the left is rendered, whitened, and roofed in slate, with three large dormer windows facing the front.

The plan is post-mediaeval in character. The main entrance lies between the centre and right units, leading to dogleg stairs positioned between these units—both original features, as evidenced by their relationship to a wide bay in the roof structure. To the left of the entrance is the original kitchen; to the right is the parlour. A third unit to the left may be slightly later in date, as its roof carpentry differs. The main section has A-type roof trusses with collar-beams lap-dovetailed to the principals using well-formed joints. In the left unit, the collars employ mortice and tenon joints. The purlins have been replaced. An earlier unit to the left (now occupied by a modern extension) survives only as a large open fireplace and traces of an early staircase rising from beside the fireplace to the upper storey of the original house. This fireplace is back-to-back with that of the kitchen in the main body.

A good 17th-century staircase, much restored, features broad newels and heavily moulded handrails and strings. It has broad turned balusters, and an original carved newel pendant survives in the cellar; the original newel finial remains on the attic landing. The upper flights have renewed handrails and balusters. In a corridor formed from the original kitchen and in the hallway are panels of ceiling plasterwork with simple triple perimeter moulding. Similar plasterwork appears on the staircase soffit. The cellar stair door is a three-panel door that has been severely reduced in height, perhaps in the 17th century, for secondary re-use. It displays a lozenge design on the upper panel with mitred moulding-joints, and a carved cross at the centre-field of the lozenge. The parlour doorway retains a heavily moulded architrave, decorative frieze and cornice with three paired brackets. The door to the bedroom above the parlour has a heavily moulded architrave and a dentilled cornice. The attic door in the same position has full-width panels and a doubled lock-rail. The parlour fireplace dates to the 18th century, its surround having been recovered and recently re-installed. The original kitchen has a large hearth with bread-oven. A wide fireplace also exists in the left unit, its bressummer centre section notched back. All three first-floor fireplaces have adzed oak bressummers. The one in the left unit has a chamfer and lamb's-tongue stop.

Two cellars feature pitched small-stone flooring with surface drains leading to exterior soakaways.