Old House at Dolau Uchaf

The Old House at Dolau Uchaf is a two-storey rubble-stone house, dating from the 18th century, with a slate roof. The front and rear walls are limewashed, with the front having a pink wash created by mixing lime with raddle. The original three-window section of the house has its openings set to the left of centre, and features a continuous rear outshut with a catslide roof. A single-window extension was added around 1900 to the right-hand side. Brick stacks are located to the right of centre and at the right end; a stone stack has been removed from the left end. Openings have cambered heads; the lower-storey openings are stone in the original part of the house and brick in the newer part, while the upper-storey openings are beneath the eaves. The original doorway has been blocked. All windows are margin-lit 2-pane sashes dating from around 1900, and they have been inserted into both the older and newer openings. The later extension to the right-hand side features a boarded door with a plain overlight, and a window in each storey, which are larger than those in the earlier part of the house, though they are not aligned.

The outshut has two 2-light openings under timber lintels in the rear wall; these are partly shuttered and partly have glazing bars. A boarded door is found in the end wall facing the newer part of the house, along with another boarded door.

Originally, the house comprised a kitchen and a smaller parlour, separated by a boarded partition with a boarded door. The kitchen has a tile floor and a blocked fireplace with a wooden overmantle. A dog-leg stair rises from the kitchen, featuring turned balusters and newels. The parlour contains a fireplace with a wooden surround. The later kitchen has a flagstone floor, a fireplace with a brick surround, and a ladder stair which leads to a hatch on the first floor. Exposed first-floor joists are visible in all of the ground-floor rooms. The outshut served as a scullery and retains its original slate benches, with the underside of the roof boarded. Upstairs, rooms are divided by boarded partitions, and the ceilings are also boarded. The room over the second kitchen retains a fireplace with a wooden surround.