Ty'n Coed

Ty'n Coed is a house with an attached byre, dating from the 17th century and later altered in the 19th century. The house is constructed of colourwashed rubble with a steep corrugated-iron roof, wooden soffits and barges. It has gable chimney-stacks built of rubble stone with stone drips and tabling, the stack on the left being thicker. The asymmetrical facade is offset to the right, featuring two upper windows with timber lintels and brick sills – a four-pane casement to the left and a two-pane casement to the right. The ground floor has two two-light four-pane casements with timber lintels and brick sills. A 20th-century window has been inserted to the extreme left. The right end has an upper two-light four-pane casement, and a shuttered ground floor window with slate sills and cambered stone voussoired heads, suggesting rebuilding in the 19th century. The rear of the house includes a two-light window with a timber lintel.

The attached byre, built later with lower rubble construction and a slate roof, replaced an earlier byre. A doorway to the right leads into the former cross-passage and has a timber lintel. A later rubble lean-to has been added to the left of the byre. The gable end of the byre has a tall plinth and loops. The rear of the byre has four doorways, with cambered stone voussoired heads; the first and third from the left are blocked and have 20th-century windows inserted.

The present entrance is into a small stair lobby, and the 19th-century timber stair is a later addition. The parlour, to the right, features roughly chamfered gable-beams and a deep centre-beam with a long mortise in its soffit, suggesting a former smaller inner room. The dairy behind the parlour continues the cross-beams. Window shutters are present alongside a partition of horizontal boards, some with shallow ogee mouldings on the edges. The feet of two scarfed crucks are visible, as are the feet of a third cruck in the hall. Broadly stop-chamfered cross-beams run alongside the cruck-trusses. The house contains a massive, partly blocked-in fireplace, a blocked recess to the left (originally a door to the cross-passage), and remains of a winding stone stair on the right. The first-floor rooms expose the four-bay roof, containing three pairs of scarfed crucks with lapped collars and yoked apexes; the soffits of the blades and collars are chamfered. The collars are square-pegged and paired purlins are present. The underthatch consists of hazel woven between split ash rafters, with a layer of bracken over a covering of wheat straw thatch. Modern stalls are present in the byre, and stop-chamfered beams are also visible. The trusses display reused collared scarfed cruck blades re-erected as collarbeam trusses with short vertical wall posts.