Pont-yr-ychain Farmhouse

Pont-yr-ychain Farmhouse is an early 18th century Renaissance house. It features an external render with a rendered plinth, a hipped roof with lead flashings, and two tall chimneystacks on the west end wall—one brick and one rendered—along with bracketed eaves. The building is two storeys plus an attic. The front roof slope has three dormer windows, each with a monopitch roof, tiled cheeks, and 2+2 pane casements. On the first floor, there are three square window openings with 6-pane horned sashes and stone sills. The ground floor includes a 4-panel door with a 3-pane horizontal overlight on the left and two 12-pane horned sashes on the right, also with stone sills and panelled aprons. The end walls of the main house are blind.

The rear elevation features a projecting kitchen wing with a hipped roof on the left and a smaller hipped stair wing set back to the right, both having small roof-lights. The kitchen wing has 20th-century metal windows in broad camber arched openings on both the ground and first floors, while the stair wing has a 20th-century window on the first floor and a 6-panel door on the ground floor. Additionally, there is a single-storey back extension with a hipped slate roof projecting from the centre of the rear elevation, and against the end wall of the extension is a small brick lean-to with a corrugated asbestos roof.

Inside, the entry leads into a broad stair-hall featuring a dado rail and ceiling cornice. There is a 19th-century quarter-turn stair with landings, an open string with applied brackets, and landings with turned newels and ramped handrails. The bottom newel-post is omitted, allowing the handrail to sweep round in a spiral turn and be supported by simple square section balusters. The front room has a moulded ceiling cornice, panelled shutters, and a blocked segmental arched opening in the axial wall. There is a 6-panel door leading to the kitchen and 4-panel doors to the first-floor bedrooms, all with fielded panels. The bedroom fireplace features a fine 18th-century Forest ('duck's nest') cast-iron grate. The habitable attic is partitioned and has collar trusses and two tiers of purlins.