Ty-coch Farmhouse

Ty-coch Farmhouse is a house dating back to the 17th century, with later alterations, and is located in a group value context. The exterior is white-painted roughcast with a slate roof and two stone stacks. The house is two storeys and an attic, with a main three-window range and an entry positioned between the centre and right bays. A small stone stack was rebuilt on the ridge left of the entry (replaced with brick in 1980), and a larger rebuilt stack is situated on the ridge to the right, between the main range and a short, two-bay service range which has the same ridge line but a set-back front wall. Catslide dormers are present with leaded casement pair windows – three to the main range and one to the service range. The windows have a cambered head and timber leaded lights. The main range features a broad five-light window to the left, with a date plaque between the floors, narrow three-light windows to the centre, and four-light windows to the right. The service range has similar four- and three-light windows on the first floor, and a five-light window and door to the ground floor. The main door was replaced since 1980 with a late 20th-century arch-topped open porch on two columns; formerly, it was a ledged door with massive iron hinges and internal diagonal boarding.

The left end wall has a 17th-century four-light mullion window on the ground floor, and a similar three-light window above. An attic casement pair window is also present (described as a similar two-light window in 1980). The right end wall incorporates an added buttress, a 20th-century three-light first-floor window (previously a 17th-century three-light in 1980), and a square leaded ground-floor window.

The rear elevation includes an outshut to the right with a 17th-century two-light mullion window in the return over a ground-floor fixed casement pair. A 20th-century addition is also visible at the rear. The centre of the rear has a long four-light 17th-century window on each floor, featuring hoodmoulds (which illuminate the main rooms between the ridge stacks), and a door to the right. These windows have iron opening lights, with an original catch to the ground floor window and old glass. To the left of the larger stack, there is a tiny 17th-century two-light window on the first floor and a ground-floor two-light window, with a casement pair to the left.

Partial inspection of the interior revealed a cross-passage with an ovolo-moulded head to the rear door. A room to the right contains a chamfered and stopped timber lintel to the fireplace, one beam over the fireplace and one chamfered beam. There are remnants of a timber-frame screen in the passage, with some scribed lines to the plaster panels. Above the entry to a room to the left, there are ornately stopped ovolo-moulded beams, an ovolo-moulded lintel to the fireplace, and a window seat. A shaped doorhead is visible to the space beneath the old plain rear stairs, and a blocked five-light diamond-mullion window is also present. Shutters belong to the two-light window on the stairway. The first floor has a moulded doorframe on the landing and ovolo-moulded beams, doors and beams with very ornate stops, described as two parallel rolls, and a convex run-out. The roof features collar trusses above the left end. The service end was not inspected, but the roof appears to have a single truss and an axial beam carrying ceiling joists below.