Pant-glas Farmhouse

Pant-glas Farmhouse is a largely 16th-century L-plan cross-passage house with a rear service wing, later altered to present a Georgian facade. The main part of the house is constructed of carefully squared and coursed near ashlar sandstone, with a concrete tile roof to the front range and Welsh slate to the rear. The main, three-bay, two-storey and attic range has an off-centre entrance. A prominent doorway is flanked by attached Doric columns and features a 4-centred archway leading up three steps. The stone pediment above the archway is inscribed with the date 1732, although the doorway itself likely dates back to around 1600; the pediment was probably added in 1732 to protect earlier carved stonework, but might be more recent. All windows are now 6 over 6 pane sashes, though the original window style is likely similar to those found on the rear wing or the rear wall of the main range. The steeply pitched roof has three gabled dormers with 6 + 6 pane casements, dating from around 1975, and stone end stacks with weathered caps.

The left-hand gable end has a 2 over 4 pane casement on the ground floor and a small casement in the gable. The base of the gable wall is thicker, with different stone coursing. It incorporates a pointed arch doorway with a chamfered stone surround, leading to a cellar which has an elliptical stone vault. Above the doorway, the gable wall is of a single build with the rear wing and contains three irregularly spaced windows. The four windows to the left have sunk moulded stone surrounds with 19th-century timber casements, the lower ones being 2-light windows separated by a stone mullion. A segmentally arched doorway with a glazed door provides access to a staircase located between these windows and those on the right, with the remaining windows being 19th-century cross-framed casements. A stone stack is visible on the left-hand gable end.

The rear of the entrance range has a lean-to addition on the ground floor, and above it is a surviving original 2-light window with 4-centred heads. This rear wall is constructed of random rubble, as is the rear wall of the kitchen wing, which features a lean-to porch for the kitchen door and a 3-light casement within a blocked doorway. This doorway appears to have originally led to a second cross-passage. Three small casements are located above.

The interior, only partly inspected, features a cross-passage entrance, although the rear door to this space is now concealed within a cupboard. The original staircase, and any potential 18th-century replacement, have been removed, and the present staircase is a 20th-century rearrangement. A circa 1600 stone fireplace with a reeded surround survives in one room, while the other rooms and the upper floor were not accessible for viewing.