Panteg

Small cottage - single storeyed with loft. Clom built, but with stone-faced front wall, which is almost certainly original. Thatched roof surviving under tin. Gable end stacks. Left-hand gable end re-built in brick, and brick lean-to dairy against rear. Main elevation has main openings symmetrically arranged but offset to the left to take account of the massive internal chimney at the right-hand gable. Small fire-window serving this chimney has small-paned casement. Boarded door flanked by sash windows, 12-pane to right, 2-pane with margin lights to left. Openings all have slate sills and lintels. Left hand brick gable has 4-pane casement window to upper right, lighting loft. Left-hand clom gable largely collapsed, revealing construction of main chimney to have been entirely of clom, apparently built on lifts supported on a series of timber lintels. Evidence of a small loft window in the gable end was recovered on the site. The house is set within its small field system, and has a distinctive curved wall partially made from large stone slabs defining a former front-garden and with tall stone gate-piers.

Simple two-room plan with central entrance passage. Horizontally boarded partitions to either side of it, and quarry tiled floors throughout. Main living room to right with large fireplace with chamfered timber bressumer; upper sections of clom chimney collapsed. Smaller parlour to left of passage has small later C19 fireplace. Ladder stair alongside main chimney (displaced but probably close to its original position). Upper floor divided into two chambers by vertically boarded partition. Differences in the type of floor-boarding may suggest that the cottage was originally of croglofft form, given a full loft at a later date. 5 pegged collar trusses. An early thatched roof survives and takes an unusual form: straw rope is used to attach bundles of thatch to broad riven oak laths.