Maendy

Large farmhouse of limewashed stone rubble with boulder footings, slightly battered; Welsh slate roof, end and centre ridge stacks with narrow cornices and weathercoursing. Plan of 2 storey S porch with lobby entry, the door leading to a passage beside the fireplace wall which separates hall E and kitchen W; rear single store dairy attached NE adjacent to stairs right of fireplace. Gabled porch has rectangular 2 light sunk-chamfered window to first floor with hoodmould and hollow chamfered mullion, iron-framed casements; plain doorway below has shallow dripstone; strongly battered to sides, cobbled approach to front. To left a 2 light window to ground floor; to right a range of 3 small 2 light casement windows with sills to first floor and 2 larger cambered headed casements to ground floor. Rear elevation is stepped with catslide roof over service wing left which has a small light at back and another with hood to return; staircase wing with small rectangular light at centre; rear doorway under timber lintel right, and added single storey wing with different roof pitch end right. Attached at right angles a single storey range with corrugated roof.

Porch has flag floor, stone seats and a coffered ceiling of plaster panels between chamfered and stopped beams; doorway is a four centred arch with a roughly heart-shaped keystone. Former kitchen has large open fireplace with large bressummer incorporating bread ovens; close set broad chamfered reeded beams with filleted stops. Hall has large fireplace with date 1607 carved on the bressummer; arched doorways to stone stairs with cross slab roof beside fireplace and N to former dairy which retains slabs and stone floor; broad chamfered beams with filleted stops and square joists. Roof trusses not seen but reported as still in situ and as having curved foot principals, collars and 3 rows of trenched purlins.