Pantglas

Pantglas is a house, likely dating to the 18th century, constructed with whitewashed roughcast walls and slate roofs. It is two storeys high with an attic. The house features whitewashed rendered end wall stacks, a stone centre ridge stack, and a large external chimney at the rear. Most of the windows have been replaced with timber-framed, 12-pane Brecon hopper windows, although some retain original timber lintels. Modern roof lights are present on the front elevation.

The five bays are irregularly spaced. The first bay contains a 12-pane window above a small window that was previously marked as a door. The second bay is separated from the first and features a larger 12-pane window over another 12-pane window, situated close to the third bay which has a 9-pane window above the main entrance, housed within a modern porch. A dripstone sits above the front door. A large stone chimney marks a division within the house, although there is no structural joint visible. The right-hand portion of the house has two 12-pane sashes above and two below, each with a dripstone. A third window was marked as blocked in 1968-9. The right end wall includes a corbelled external chimney, while the left end has an external chimneybreast above a lean-to addition.

The rear elevation has two first-floor windows and one ground-floor window, which are not aligned. A massive projecting base of rubble stone supports a tall, leaning square stack. To the left of this stack, the roofline descends slightly before continuing over a rear outshut, incorporating a large gabled dormer and a ground-floor square window. The outshut overlaps the division between the two original sections of the house, marked by the stone ridge chimney, and slightly overlaps the corner of a stair gable to the left, which includes a window on each landing level and a plain gable. The final bay retains eaves to the original line and has a single window on each floor, with a dripstone over the upper window and a hoodmould over the lower.

The entrance hall contains the back of a ground-floor fireplace and the corbelled base of a first-floor chimney. A substantial beam is supported by two stone corbels. A door leads into the main east room, which contains two original beams and previously had a fireplace on the west end; a modern fireplace is now set into the east end wall. A previously existing beam with two hollow mouldings on the east wall was removed in 1965. The staircase opens off the back wall, featuring a winding design around a square pier. A cellar staircase turns at a right angle to access a cellar with a cobbled floor and an inset drain.

A room to the left of the hall features a lateral chimney on the back wall, with a large, cambered-headed fireplace opening containing stone voussoirs. Two principal beams (a third being within the entrance hall) are supported by a stone pier. The adjacent kitchen has two beams resting on stone corbels and a large beam over an end fireplace.

The stairs open onto a landing partially under the outshut where a massive beam spans the opening. Most of the first-floor rooms have been altered with modern partitions, and a fireplace corbelled around the chimney has been blocked. New attic stairs have been constructed, leading to two attics with collar trusses – three to the east and four to the west. The trusses over the west side are larger, and the collars of the west roof trusses have been repositioned.