Pen-y-lan Farmhouse

Pen-y-lan Farmhouse is a late 17th-century house, though its history is more complex, with earlier origins. The exterior is smooth cement rendering over rubble limestone, with freestone dressings and a concrete tile roof. The south elevation features a central three-story porch. A plain doorway leads to the main entrance, which consists of four vertical planks with panelled mouldings, strap hinges, and an ovolo moulded oak frame. Above the doorway is a two-light casement with a stone mullion, a dripstone, and replacement joinery. The roof is steeply pitched with no verges, and there is a gable stack to the left. To the left of the porch, the hall window has been replaced with a set of hardwood French doors, and a wide rendered area may obscure a former fire window or original stair position. Above this is a three-light casement and a single light one, with the remainder obscured by the porch. The right side of the porch is obscured by a modern conservatory, with a two-light casement above and a gable stack. The left gable has the original entry, now a three-by-three pane window with a four-centred head. The rear elevation has later additions and outshuts, but retains a three-story gabled wing of 17th-century origin, with a three-light timber casement on each floor, the upper two having dripmoulds.

Inside, the porch leads to a cross-passage, with a large room on either side. To the left is a hall from a 16th-century house, containing a large fireplace with an enormous stone lintel and a bread oven. To the right of this is the old entrance doorway. The room to the right of the cross-passage has a smaller fireplace with a monolith surround. All ceiling beams are chamfered; some have run-out stops. The cross-passage contains a timber dogleg staircase around a stone centerpiece. The first floor also features chamfered beams, although modern partitioning obscures the original room arrangement. The attic has a single plastered room above the porch, with a plank door and a cambered head. The roof is a principal rafter structure with cranked collars, two tiers of trenched purlins, a diagonally set ridge piece; the rafters have been replaced.