Pen-yr-Heol Farmhouse

This is a single-storey and attic farmhouse, built of stone, and follows a long-house plan. The exterior is of red sandstone rubble with three broad 19th-century gables to both the front and rear, stepped up to the south and featuring plain bargeboards. The farmhouse has hammer-dressed quoins and a modern tiled roof, installed in 1979. Small-pane, iron-framed casement windows, with stone sills and lintels, are present; remnants of earlier windows are visible, and one late-medieval window is retained on the front right. These windows and the gables were added by the Llanthony Estate in the early to mid-19th century. All the joinery is of late 20th-century design, including the front door. There are chamfered 4-centred arched doorways with cushion stops to the cross-passage, and a massive dripstone to the rear alongside a lean-to. A stepped chimney breast was removed from the tall downhill gable end. This gable end, possibly originally the site of a cowhouse, has largely been rebuilt; it features a 4-light small-paned casement on the front elevation, and two modern small-paned casements on each floor of the gable. All gables have plain bargeboards.

Entry is through a cross-passage with stone walls on either side, retaining a draw-bar at the front and a similar late-medieval doorway into the hall. The byre is located downhill and features stop-chamfered beams. The main interior spaces include stone-flagged floors, stone skirtings, massively beamed ceilings, and late-medieval fireplaces. The iron-framed windows have unusual furniture with brass knobs that are said to be the crest of the Llanthony Estate. The hall chimney has a fine stone surround, chamfered and square-headed with diagonal stops, suggesting a late 15th-century date and includes a bread oven. Fireplace stairs are present to the west, in front of which is broad stone shelving of a similar date. The front window is offset due to the position of the stairs and to provide light to the other end of the hall. An uphill parlour, which is substantial and heated, is separated by a partition (previously plank and muntin screens) with doorways to either end; similar fireplace stairs are present at this end. Alterations include a 19th-century wall inserted into the parlour and pantry, and one reused chamfered ceiling beam.