Cwmdows Farmhouse

Cwmdows Farmhouse is a former farmhouse built of white painted stone rubble with a stone tile roof and an off-centre ridge stack. It has two storeys, with the upper storey being very low. The building has a two-unit plan, with the former house on the left against the hillside and the byre on the right, now combined into a single dwelling. The openings are irregular, featuring two ground floor 9-pane casement windows with sills under a hood on the left, a doorway with a hood in the centre right, and above the doorway, a small rectangular window with four very small lights and diamond mullions. There is also a small recessed staircase light under a hood to the left of the door. The end bay on the right, which was the former byre, has a separate broader doorway with a casement window above it and a small 3-pane window with diamond mullions under a hood to the right.

Inside, there is a wide cross passage that backs onto the fireplace. A chamfered four-centred wooden arch leads east to the main room, which features heavy chamfered and stopped cross beams, an open fireplace with a chamfered timber lintel that has a triangular recess and a bread oven. There are spiral stairs with oak treads beside the fireplace, which have the original door. Two further four-centred arched doorways lead to the inner rooms, and the floors are made of stone flags. The roof is recorded by Fox and Raglan as having A-frame trusses on an upper cruck. The former byre, now part of the dwelling, includes a loft over the cross passage with first floor doorway access; this loft, which was previously used for the cow-herd, is at a higher level than the main hayloft, whose beams remain but not the floor.