Pen-y-clawdd House

Pen-y-clawdd House is a small country house that features roughcast walls and slate roofs, with a prominent large roughcast lateral chimney on the front wall topped with red brick. The two-storey facade has gables at each end, showcasing details that are either from the 19th century or in the Arts and Crafts style from 1905. The gables are adorned with bargeboards, and the windows are timber-mullion with square leaded panes. The left gable includes a small loft light, a triple casement window on the first floor, and a 20th-century window on the ground floor.

The central part of the house has a large early 20th-century sandstone ashlar porch featuring a coped shouldered gable above two narrow cusped lights. There is a segment-headed doorway in the right side wall, with a small pair of casement windows under the eaves above. A large lateral chimney rises above eaves level. On the right side, there is a pair of first-floor casement windows and a triple casement window under the eaves, above a triple casement window and an early 20th-century flush ashlar doorcase with a segmental head and a plank door fitted with fillets and strap hinges.

The right cross-wing has a large three-light mullion and transom timber window on each floor, with a chimney located on the rear gable of the cross-wing. The right side wall is windowless. At the rear, there is a long single-storey attached cart range that is open-fronted and has a slate roof.

Historical information from the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales indicates that the house originally had a three-room and cross-passage layout from the late 16th century, with a parlour to the west, a hall featuring a lateral chimney, a cross-passage, and an east cross-wing that included a kitchen with a large fireplace at the southern end. The west cross-wing is believed to be entirely from the 19th century. A timber pre-glazing double two-light window with a diamond mullion and a five-sided post between the lights was discovered in a wall between the chamber over the hall and the cross-wing, suggesting that the hall-parlour range predates the cross-wing. Additionally, there were two doorways with shaped heads, one located in the kitchen and the other between the kitchen and the cross-passage.