The Cwm

The Cwm is a house dating back to the 16th century, with later additions and alterations. The building is constructed of painted roughcast with some exposed rubble stone, and has concrete tile roofs. It is arranged in a T-plan, with the original 16th-century block forming the eastern end of the cross-wing. This original block was initially a single-room unit, featuring an undercroft and a small brick stack at the west end. A lower range extends west from this block, and a longer rear wing runs north, featuring a rebuilt brick end stack. Historic photographs reveal that the original exterior was of exposed rubble stone, but this is now visible only on the east gable of the original block, the north wall of that same block, and the west gable of the western block.

The original block contains a fine 4-light recessed mullion window, with Tudor-arched heads and counter-sunk spandrels, on the north side of the first floor. A similar 2-light window, missing its mullion, is present at ground floor level on the right of the east gable end; both mullioned windows are covered by relieving arches, the lower one with a stone hoodmould. An attic window, originally a single light with an eroded square frame, was blocked in around 1950. The south front has been re-glazing with sash windows in the 19th century or early 20th century. The original block retains a 6-pane sash window above a ground floor door, alongside a 20th-century lavatory window. The addition to the left has a lower roofline, featuring 4-pane and 12-pane sash windows on the upper floors, and three 4-pane sashes on the ground floor. The west gable end is windowless. The rear north wall has 4-pane sash windows on each floor.

The rear north wing has a west front with a long 4-pane stair light window at the angle to the right, a 4-pane sash window which formerly served as a door, centrally, and a broad 6-pane sash to the left, with a 4-pane sash above the eaves. The north end has two small loft lights. The east elevation has a ground floor lean-to addition constructed of painted brick. On the first floor, there are three 20th-century windows, where only a single window was present in a 1950 photograph.

Inside the lean-to addition, a relieving arch is visible on the rear north wall of the original block. This wall defines a ground floor undercroft, notable for its massive walls, heavy beams and square joists. One beam has a stepped run-out stop to its chamfer. The first floor has four beams; three are ovolo-moulded, featuring barred stepped hollow stops, with the third beam over a partition and the fourth encased. Remaining beams have a simple scribed moulding around the north window. An east wall features a fine blocked Tudor-arched doorway, likely once reached by external stairs. The west wall, now within the bathroom, reveals a partly exposed massive stone fireplace lintel.

The western range appears to have been added in the late 17th or early 18th century, featuring a beam with a stepped hollow moulded stop above the west fireplace. A 18th-century fielded panelled door is located on the ground floor, alongside two cupboards with fielded panelled doors on the west wall. The north wing has two chamfered beams on each floor, displaying a thin chamfer and likely dating to the 18th century.