Pwll-yr-Hwyaid

Pwll-yr-Hwyaid is a house built in the 17th century, constructed from local sandstone rubble with some external timber framing and later brickwork, all painted. It has a tiled roof and red brick stacks. The house is L-shaped, with a single-storey outshut forming an inner angle. The main part of the house is single-storey with an attic, while the rear wing is two storeys high. A steeply pitched roof features a rebuilt red brick stack on the right gable.

The oldest part of the house faces south and contains two small casement windows with six panes each, set under timber lintels on the ground floor, one to the left and one to the right of the centre. A large catslide dormer is situated on the eaves to the right. The east elevation has the original entrance beside the stack, with a plank door and a small tiled hood above. A small iron casement window provides light to the staircase, to the left of the stack. The west elevation displays original timber framing with a fine exposed raised cruck truss. The framing consists of vertical studs rising to beams at tie-beam and collar levels, with stone infill and vertical painted-on timbers. A modern door is centrally located below, and a small leaded casement window sits in the apex on the collar beam.

The northern rear elevation is largely obscured by later extensions, including a wing to the left and a lean-to set at right angles to the right. A small dormer window with a casement is positioned above the lean-to. The rear wing has been heightened, with stone construction below and brickwork above. The gable end here has a large external stack flanked by casement windows as found on the upper floor. Casement windows are present on each floor of the left return, while the right return is covered by a single-storey lean-to, featuring a casement window facing the road.

The interior of the original section is well-preserved. A small north-end room features a massive, chamfered axial beam with ogee stops. A square-framed partition extends to the main room, continuing into the loft space. The ground floor main room includes a rebuilt fireplace with an oak lintel, the door to the left, and a wooden winding staircase, noted in 1999, which has since been removed from the right. Two deeply chamfered ceiling beams are also present. A second cruck is visible within a partition wall, displaying posts but no planks; the cranked headed doorway survives at the right-hand end, with evidence of another to the left. The two originally unheated rooms beyond are now combined into a kitchen. Upstairs, the partition continues to an upper cruck truss, with a surviving doorway with a cranked head cut into the collar. A single massive purlin is visible. The two cruck trusses are spaced 2.94 metres apart.