Coedweddus

Long 3-unit farmhouse, single-storey with loft. Colour-washed rubble stone (encasing crucks in the 2 right-hand units); thatched roof covered by corrugated iron. Stacks (formerly axial and at right-hand gable) removed. Front shows clear structural division between central and left hand or upper unit. Offset entrance between the 2 right had bays, with widely spaced windows flanking it, their heads under the eaves; that to right a small-paned sash. Four-paned sash window in right-hand gable apex. Left-hand unit has single window in front wall (also a small-paned sash), the gable partially clad in corrugated iron (obscuring a small loft window visible internally). Blind rear elevation, with clear structural division (expressed as an off-set) between the lower and central units; feet of crucks project through the wall in central and upper unites.

The building is entered via a small passage in the lower right-hand unit, at the rear of the main chimney stack. This is separated from the lower room by a wattle and daub partition, and has a cobbled floor; it contains staircase to loft. Step up to main room which has large fireplace with chamfered timber lintel and inserted cast-iron range. Base of crucks visible in front and rear walls; substantial lateral ceiling beams (not tied into cruck trusses). The walls retain significant traces of a decorative scheme in red and yellow lime-wash, with dado, frieze and diaper work; cobbled floor. Upper unit (divided from the main room only by a partition) also has visible bases of a cruck truss to front and rear, and slate slabs suggesting its use as a dairy or cool room. Lower room (with traces of painted paper and lime-wash decoration) has small cast-iron fireplace of late C18 or early C19 type, and plastered beam.

Dog-leg stairs open onto small landing giving direct access to room over the parlour: this has pegged A-frame truss, and is lined with boarding. Roof over landing has 3 purlins and broad cleft oak rafters, providing support for thatch. Very low doorway to central room which has substantial lime-washed cruck truss with saddle below apex and is shouldered (and scarfed?) at floor level. Rough network of poles over purlins, supporting thatch, which survives to a considerable degree (extensive use of bracken, perhaps as under-thatch). End unite is also cruck-framed, though the character of the truss may suggest a slightly more recent date. Remains of boarded lining to walls.