Ty-Mawr

Ty-Mawr is a house with thick stone rubble walls, which are visible internally in some places, but are entirely rendered and painted on the outside. It has Welsh slate roofs with ridge tiles and brick stacks. The building is two storeys high and has a single depth range, with an outshut at the center rear and a wing at the right rear. The main south elevation features five bays and a two-storey gabled porch in the center. The ground floor includes 2 and 3-light timber casement windows and a door leading to a late 20th-century conservatory on the left. The upper floor has 2-light casement windows, all of which date from the late 19th or early 20th century. The porch has a segmentally arched entrance with a dripmould above and a 2-light casement window in the gable above. The roof is plain and has four ridge stacks: one at each gable, one at the left center, and one in the hearth passage position. The west gable has a small window and a large buttress, while the right gable is blind and faces a rubble retaining wall with a Tudor 4-centred arched fireplace at the base, which may be in situ. The rear elevation features 19th-century casement windows and a gable stack on the rear wing to the left.

The house may have originally been a small structure with an end entry before being developed into a three-cell hearth passage house with a two-storey porch, although the evidence is unclear. The main ground floor room to the west of the porch has chamfered beams typical of around 1600, but the entire structure underwent significant alterations around 1900, including an inserted fireplace, staircase, and structural joinery. The hall fireplace is reported to have the date 1583 and the initials HW, but these were not observed during the resurvey in November 2001. There are also two unusual fireplaces from around 1900, arched in tiles. The upper floor features a Tudor fireplace at the head of the stairs, and the roof timbers appear to have been completely replaced around 1900.