15 Gelli-deg

Cottage in a terraced row, 2-storeys, much altered. The row comprises an C18 3-bay house with small service range set back to right, mainly No 15 but left bay of house part of No 16, and 6 added cottages in 2 blocks (now the rest of No 16, No 17, No 19 and No 21).

No 15 begins on the right with the one-room lower service range, possibly an earlier single room house. Painted rubble stone, with slate close-eaved roof, rendered square right end stack with dripstones possibly indicating thatch and with late C20 plastic windows, one large to left immediately over but not aligned with a square one below and another square one to ground floor centre. Windowless stone end wall. Rear wall of painted rubble stone continuous with main rear wall has door to centre right, large plastic window under eaves and one each side to ground floor the right one close to the probable party wall. The main part of No 15 (and one bay of current No 16) appears to be a 2-storey 3-bay farmhouse originally with end stacks, the left end one gone. Painted stucco with raised surrounds to openings and slate roof. Windows are late C20 plastic except for 2-pane sash to ground floor left (No 16), door is C20. Rear wall of painted rubble stone with large boulders at base. Three ground floor C20 windows with timber lintels. Upstairs is one broad C20 window under eaves.

Interior not available for inspection. In 1988 the service range to No 15 was of river boulders, the roof trusses of oak with single pegged purlin of rough hewn wood and another purlin added later presumably when roof was slated.. There was a large fireplace in the right end wall with oven and timber spiral stairs to right. The floor beams had been replaced. The old farmhouse (of which No 15 is part) had similar walls, oak double-purlin roofs with pegged collar trusses. There was a lobby entry by the right gable next to the large fireplace. The partition now dividing Nos 15 and 16 was of stone only on the ground floor and not tied-in, the stairs were against the partition to the rear. There were oak floor beams at 1.2m intervals.