Pont-yr-ychain Farmhouse

Early C18 Renaissance house. External render with rendered plinth; hipped roof has lead flashings and two tall chimneystacks in end-wall to W (one brick, one rendered) and bracketed eaves. Two storey plus attic. Front roof slope contains three dormer windows each with monopitch roof, tiled cheeks and 2+2 pane casements. First floor has three square window openings with 6-pane horned sashes and stone sills. Ground floor has 4-panel door with 3-pane horizontal overlight (left) and two 12-pane horned sashes (right) with stone sills and panelled aprons. End-walls of main house are blind. Rear elevation has projecting kitchen wing with hipped roof (left) and smaller hipped stair wing (set back to right), each with small roof-light. Kitchen wing has C20 metal windows in broad camber arched openings on ground and first floors; Stair wing, C20 window on first and 6-panel door on ground floor. A single storey back-extension with hipped slate roof projects at centre of rear elevation. Against end-wall of extension (right) is small brick lean-to with corrugated asbestos roof.

Entry into broad stair-hall which has dado rail and ceiling cornice. C19 quarter-turn stair with landings. Open string with applied brackets. Landings have turned newels and ramped hand-rails. Bottom newel-post is omitted and hand-rail is swept round in spiral turn and carried on simple square section balusters. Front room has moulded ceiling cornice, panelled shutters and blocked segmental arched opening in axial wall. 6-panel door to kitchen and 4-panel doors to first floor bedrooms have fielded panels. Bedroom fireplace has good C18 Forest (‘duck's nest') cast-iron grate. Habitable attic is partitioned, collar trusses, two tiers of purlins.