Blaencerdin

Blaencerdin is an earlier 19th-century, single-storey cottage made of whitewashed rubble, featuring a grouted random slate roof that was covered with tarpaulin at the time of the survey. It has brick chimney stacks at each end. The front of the cottage has a deeply recessed boarded door that is offset to the right, flanked by horned 12-pane sash windows in painted frames. To the right, there is a corrugated-iron carpenters' shop with windows that have overlapping small panes. To the left, stepped down, is a whitewashed rubble cowshed with a corrugated-iron roof, a boarded door, and a 4-pane casement window. Set back from the main structure is a lower outbuilding, mostly made of corrugated iron, which has a boarded door and a 3-pane window. The rear wall, which is also made of whitewashed rubble and has overhanging eaves, bows slightly and has no window openings except for one tiny blocked window. There is a loft window on the right-hand gable end.

While the interior was not inspected, it is reported that the historic character is remarkably well-preserved. The layout includes a parlour to the left of the entrance passage and a steep ladder against the left-hand gable end leading up to the loft, which contains the sleeping accommodation. The roof structure consists of four collarless trusses with purlins and a ridge.