Llechau

Four-unit house of one-and-a-half storeys with entrance facing S. Basement storey to W half which appears as a full-storey to the rear, the house having been built on a slope. Constructed of rubble stone, formerly lime-washed, under a slate roof. Two roughcast stacks, to W end and L of centre. A large late C20 kitchen extension has been added to the E end of the house, which projects to the rear and is constructed of blockwork. The windows are late C20 replacements; 2-light wooden casements, each light with a segmental head, and with a timber lintel. Three windows to lower storey, irregularly set, and wide rebuilt porch to R, beyond which is a 4th window to the added kitchen unit. Five gabled half dormers, regularly-spaced, with windows as elsewhere. The W gable end has a segmental arch of very narrow voussoirs at ground floor level, now infilled. The rear is dominated by the projecting 2-gable extension. To its R, the wall is rendered and contains a 2-light window to the basement, a single light and 2-light window to the middle storey and a skylight to the roof.

The entrance is roughly in the position of the C17 entrance, which would have led into an outer room, now altered and extended and containing a late C20 staircase. A timber doorway with shallow Tudor head leads L into the hall, reset because the partition wall has been moved. The hall has a large stone fireplace at the W end with flat chamfered timber lintel. A wall has been inserted under the L side of the lintel, the space to the L probably occupied originally by a bakeoven. To the R is a doorway to the W room and immediately next to it, straight stone stairs lead down to the basement storey. Offset above are the remains of a stone fireplace staircase with wooden treads, which would have been located within a projection (now within the extension), entered through a timber doorway with shallow Tudor head. Chamfered cross beams with ogee stops survive throughout the ground floor. Large room to W of hall with cross beams and smaller fireplace to W end with chamfered timber lintel. There was formerly a doorway in the S wall.

The basement is of 2 rooms. Large fireplace with flat chamfered timber lintel to W end, with bakeoven and wash basin to R. Former window opening in S wall, partly below ground level, and now blocked.

The roof has been raised slightly, but the original A-frame trusses survive, along with fragments of the wall plate.