Pen-ucha'r-plwyf

Pen-uchar-plwyf is a house of 18th-century date, built in rubble stone formerly limewashed with slate roofs. It consists of two distinct sections: an older part to the west of two storeys with a substantial square rubble stone stack at the right end, and a later part to the left of two and a half storeys with a smaller stone stack to the left.

The later part to the left features a 19th-century roof overhanging at eaves and gables, and a 20th-century centre eaves-breaking dormer with 8-8 pane casements. The first floor left of centre has 8-8-pane casements and a small 20th-century inserted 4-pane light to the right, while the ground floor has a 20th-century triple 6-6-6-pane casement. All windows have timber lintels.

The lower range to the right has a door to the left in a slated lean-to porch added around 1994, with a 6-6-pane casement above under the eaves. A straight joint to the right indicates the position of an earlier timber-mullion window. To the right is a single storey outbuilding, formerly a wash-house, which was altered and lengthened around 1994, with a very small casement pair beyond. Above this is a 20th-century 2-light ovolo-moulded timber mullion window in its original position. An eroded plaque is located on the first floor centre. The right end wall contains an inserted ground floor window, followed by first floor and loft stair lights with diagonally set mullions behind 20th-century glass, with stone dripstones above.

Added to the left end beyond the 18th-century block is a cider-house, probably 18th century, with three small recesses on the front wall, possibly for bee-skeps. The end wall has a door to the right under a timber lintel and a boarded loft window to the centre above, both with stone voussoirs. Outside stone steps lead to a loft door on the garden front.

The garden front of the taller right part features a 20th-century 8-8-pane eaves-breaking dormer, a first floor 8-8-pane window right of centre, a similar 8-8-pane stair-light at mid height to the left, and a ground floor right 6-6-6-pane triple casement with a brick cambered head. The older range to the left has a first floor 20th-century triple casement, a ground floor 8-8-pane casement with a 20th-century brick cambered head to the left, and a door.

Internally, the porch contains a Tudor-arched oak frame to the front door. The cross passage within features four chamfered main beams with stepped hollow moulded stops and chamfered joists with diagonal stops. A partition to the right leads into the earlier part of the house, which is subdivided into two service rooms. One room has a Tudor-arched heavy plank door to the right into a larder with an open vent above, while the other room has a board door to the left. In the larder wall is a blocked tiny 2-light timber window with diagonally-set mullion beneath a massive chamfered lintel. The end wall contains a stone winding stair to the right of a partially blocked fireplace with a massive lintel. The stair has curved fronts to the treads and a small 20th-century 2-light mullion window. A timber partition between the rooms contains a recessed chamfered frame of a 2-light mullion window, and there is a cupboard recess to the left of the fireplace in the other room.

The lower room in the 18th-century block, now used as a kitchen, has a higher ceiling with a stair in the rear right corner, formerly partitioned off. A plain dog-leg timber stair is present. A blocked opening or recess at ground floor under the stairs is not obvious on the outside wall. Two axial beams rise from one cross beam. Plank shutters with iron hinges cover the triple casement window. A small fireplace at centre has a stone lintel raised in the 20th century, a cupboard recess to the right, and a door to the cider house to the left. The cider house has a cobbled floor and five massive beams.

The first floor of the older section contains two rooms with four heavy beams, one of which has housing for a post and panel partition. The end wall has a heavy timber lintel for the fireplace, only partly open, and two doors to stairs. The left door leads to the downward stone stair, while the right door accesses the attic stairs, also stone with another small 20th-century timber mullion window. The roof above has three bays with triple purlins, parts blackened, and heavy collar trusses also smoke blackened.

The first floor of the later range has plain beams, while the loft has collar trusses with cut tie-beams, the ends carried on vertical posts down to the floor beam below. Diagonal struts project from the wall, and stick balusters border the landing.