Llwyncyntefin

Llwyncyntefin

House of purple rubble stone with slate roofs and large cut stone chimneys with diagonal shafts. Two storeys and attic.

The original house comprises a gabled porch at the east end of an east-west range, with one original bay visible to the left of the porch. A large 18th-century three-storey roughcast block with hipped roof has been added in front of the lower end. At the east end, to the right of the porch, is a two-bay roughcast addition, apparently 19th century, with gables over the upper windows. Windows are mostly renewed early 20th-century oak mullion-and-transom with leaded lights.

The gabled porch has a grey stone chamfered entry with segmental arch and a large red sandstone plaque above bearing eight quarters to arms and the date 1634 HP. The first floor has a renewed oak mullioned window with leaded lights and a stone shelf over, under a relieving arch. The attic contains a grey stone cusped single light, perhaps a medieval re-used element. The gable verges overhang. Within the porch is a massive front door, a studded plank with cover strips and long iron hinges, with an inset smaller door in two centre planks with triangular head. Above the door is a panel with fretted board inset. The door frame has double ovolo-mouldings. Stone flags form the floor, with two side benches in arched recesses. The porch has first-floor cross-windows with oak lintels on each side, under the eaves.

The bay to the left has been altered. The ground floor has an early 20th-century four-light window with render above up to a rough arch of stone voussoirs, presumably a relieving arch. The first floor has a painted timber 19th-century cross-window with small panes, with a straight joint of wider opening to the right. The roof has a large and decaying early 20th-century flat dormer with oak mullion windows of three plus three lights. A pair of ashlar 19th-century diagonally-set corniced chimneys sit on the ridge to the right of the porch, on the party wall to the 19th-century east addition. The rear of the main house has a big lateral chimney, roughcast with triple diagonal shafts.

The 18th-century south-west addition is a single block of basement and three storeys with a hipped roof splayed at the eaves and a big roughcast west side-wall chimney of three diagonal shafts. The rubble stone east wall is windowless and painted roughcast on the south front and west side. The deep-coved eaves are broken for the top of three front early 20th-century big four-light windows, which have stone sills. The west side has an early 20th-century oak bay window cum porch, roughcast below, with leaded lights and a flat roof. The porch section overlaps the side of a lower crosswing on the west end of the original range. One 20th-century long window breaks the eaves at the extreme right, over the porch. The north gable end has a square window with rough dripstone or hoodmould on each floor, set to the right of centre: the attic has a leaded single casement with dripstone only partly over; the first floor has a four-pane square casement with hoodmould; and the ground floor has a casement pair with dripstone. A large 20th-century metal window is inserted to the first floor left.

The 19th-century east addition is painted roughcast, a two-window range of large four-pane sashes with stone sills, the upper two under gables. The east side is roughcast, with the gable end having a ground-floor horned four-eight-four-pane sash. A rear wing has two ashlar corniced stacks, one on the ridge and one to the north end. A similar gable sits over a first-floor four-pane sash, with two ground-floor 20th-century windows below. The rubble stone north gable has a projecting narrow lower gabled tower with red brick surrounds to windows in the gable and at first floor. An arched first-floor window to the right of the tower has rock-faced stone voussoirs.

Across the back of the original house is an earlier 20th-century two-storey range of rubble stone with coped parapet and flat roof. Oak mullion leaded windows with stone voussoirs comprise a two-light to the first floor left, a porch to the ground floor left, and a three-light mullion-and-transom window to the right. The west return has a similar three-light to the ground floor, and a three-light mullioned window above. In the angle to the crosswing north gable of the original house is a small sandstone ashlar oriel, one light with top-light and moulded stepped base.

The porch is recorded as giving entry to the main 17th-century hall with a rear door opposite. The hall has late 17th-century plain plasterwork between the beams and a lateral fireplace on the back wall. At the west end is a doorway to steps up to the crosswing, which has a staircase in the south-west corner and a door through to the 18th-century parlour in the added south-west wing. This parlour has one beam and a fireplace on the west wall, with a large cellar beneath. The staircase is said to have the character of circa 1700.