Rhydygwydd

Rhydygwydd is a 1½-storey farmhouse. It likely dates to the 17th century, with later alterations and additions. The farmhouse is built of rubble stone walls, now largely hidden by a smooth, rendered blockwork skin, and has a corrugated-iron roof laid over traces of an earlier thatched covering. A large square chimney stack is located centrally, with a later stack on the right-hand side. Windows have raised, plain rendered surrounds, and a band runs along the wall above sill level.

The front of the house has two doorways. The left-hand door is a 19th-century replacement, while the original entrance is situated to the right of centre, now within a rendered blockwork lean-to porch. Both doors are 20th-century half-glazed replacements. The left-hand doorway is flanked by square window openings that were enlarged in the late 20th century and now contain small-pane casements. Two late 19th-century dormers, both with slate roofs and replacement uPVC windows, have been added to the roof, along with a small window beneath the eaves above the left-hand doorway.

The left (uphill) gable end has been partially rebuilt, featuring a central attic window with two lights where a stack previously stood (visible in 20th-century aerial photographs). The right (downhill) gable end has a 20th-century window and a small attic window with replacement glazing, both positioned to the right of centre. A single-storey, lean-to addition with a slate roof extends from the downhill end of the rear of the house, along with two inserted 20th-century windows further to the right.

The original house appears to have comprised a hall and inner room, initially separated by a partition rather than a cross wall, with a parlour added at the uphill end and a kitchen at the downhill end. Ground floor rooms have concrete floors, though a small area of original flagstones remains in the hall. The walls are mostly rendered. The hall retains cross beams and a fireplace with a timber lintel that was sawn short in the 20th century, and which is chamfered with simple run-out stops. The original inner room has been subdivided into two small rooms, featuring boarded doors. A simple, steep, 19th-century ladder stair is concealed behind a boarded partition. The parlour at the uphill end has a 19th-century wooden fireplace surround, while the kitchen has a fireplace with a cambered brick head. A 19th-century steep ladder stair is concealed behind a later boarded partition in the corner of the kitchen. The upper floor of the original house has modern partitions; the underside of the roof is boarded and the roof trusses are generally concealed, except for one truss at the downhill end. This truss is a collar beam truss, but the beam has been sawn off and fixed at a higher level.