Wern Ddu

Wern Ddu is a house constructed with painted stucco and a slate roof, featuring rebuilt red brick end stacks. It has a large external rubble stone chimney breast on the north end wall. The building is two storeys high with an attic and has a three-window range of 12-pane 20th-century windows that imitate sash windows, set well in from each end wall. The right and centre windows are closer together than the centre and left windows. There is a small 9-pane window immediately to the right of the entrance door, which is a seven-panel door with the top panel glazed in coloured glass and marginal glazing bars. A gabled timber hood from the late 19th century is above the door. The south end wall is slate-hung and has two 12-pane windows on the ground floor, one 12-pane window on the first floor to the right, and an attic 6-pane light above.

The north end wall features a small 9-pane loft light, long rectangular first-floor inserted windows on either side of the chimney breast, and similarly placed ground floor inserted 12-pane sashes. There is a straight joint leading to an added outshut, which includes a small 9-pane loft light and two ground floor windows with brick heads. The rear of the house has an outshut that projects further to the right, with a 20th-century window, while the two-storey part to the left has a two-window range of 20th-century windows. A red brick stack is located on the left end.

Inside, the ground floor has a three-room plan with a square entrance hall featuring a broad elliptical plaster arch aligned with the beam and beams over the partitions on each side. The floor is made of stone flags, and the hall window is small but set in a broader reveal. There is a board partition with a four-panel door leading into the right-hand parlour, which has stone flags, a cased beam, and a blocked fireplace. A plastered partition under the cased beam leads to the left-hand kitchen, which also has a cased beam and an oak beam above a small fireplace. There is no evidence of a large chimney breast ever having been constructed. A dog-leg stair opposite the entrance has a closed string, stick balusters, and square newels that are roughly chamfered and shaped at the tops.

The first floor landing has enclosed stairs leading to the attic in two flights. The north end bedroom features plastered ceiling beams arranged in a T-plan, with coving in plaster panels and bead-moulding along the edges of the beams. A small plaster rose is located at the join of the beams, and there is another beam in front of the fireplace. The attic roof has pine trusses, one of which is dated 1869, but it reuses older collars.