Dan-y-Bwlch Farmhouse

Dan-y-Bwlch Farmhouse is a late medieval farmhouse retaining a traditional two-room, cross-passage, and cowhouse plan. It faces southwest. The original construction uses narrow coursed grey pennant sandstone rubble, partially whitened, with a roof that was originally stone tiles but is now covered with corrugated steel sheeting. The main elevation originally had four windows, but the ground floor is now largely obscured by modern garages. Only the top of the doorway leading into the cowhouse is visible. The house’s appearance is documented in Fox and Raglan Plate IIc. A doorway leads to a cross passage. Surviving windows have plain square openings, except for the ground floor window on the right, which has a cambered head. No window frames are visible. A plain roof is topped with a rubble stack, which has a weathered top.

Inside, a cross passage runs behind the hall stack, and the house is entered through a door on the left side of the cross passage. The cowhouse, slightly downhill, may have originally been entered through a now-removed screen on the right. The original heating was likely limited to the hall, although the room above the cowhouse has a fireplace, possibly original but plain. A stud and panel partition separates the hall from unheated service rooms, retaining its doors at each end. The stone winding staircase has a three-plank door in a chamfered frame. The beams throughout feature run-out stops and some have hollow chamfers. A large chamfered timber firelintel is also present. The upper floor has a timber-framed partition above the stud and panel one, originally with a doorway and plaster infill. A three-light diamond mullion window is present above, with only one mullion surviving. The roof is a principal rafter structure with slightly arched tenoned collars, two tiers of purlins, and a ridge piece, with many original secondary rafters. The room above the cowhouse, possibly intended for storage and with a later 19th-century fireplace, may have alternatively served as a "best bedroom" as suggested by Fox and Raglan, supported by evidence of original flooring.