Pen-y-clawdd House

Small country house, roughcast with slate roofs, and large roughcast lateral chimney on front wall, topped in red brick. Two-storey facade with a gable each end, all the detail either C19 or Arts and Crafts style of 1905. Gables have bargeboards, windows are timber-mullion with square leaded panes. Left gable has a small loft light, first floor triple casement and ground floor C20 window. Centre range has large early C20 sandstone ashlar porch with coped shouldered gable over 2 narrow cusped lights. Segment-headed doorway in right side wall. Small casement pair under eaves above, then big lateral chimney the shaft stepped in above eaves level. To right, first floor pair and triple casement, under eaves, over triple casement and early C20 flush ashlar doorcase with segmental head and plank door with fillets and strap hinges. Right cross-wing has big 3-light mullion and transom wtimber window each floor. Chimney on cross-wing rear gable. Windowless right side wall. To the rear a long single-storey attached cart range, open-fronted with slate roof.

Not available for inspection (December 1999). Information at RCAHMW, Aberystwyth, records a 3-room and cross-passage later C16 plan of parlour to W, hall with lateral chimney, cross-passage and then E cross-wing with kitchen, the large fireplace at S end. The W cross-wing was thought entirely C19. A timber pre-glazing double 2-light window with diamond mullion and 5-sided post between lights was found in a wall between chamber over the hall and the cross-wing, suggesting that the hall-parlour range predates the cross-wing. There were 2 doorways with shaped heads, one in the kitchen, the other between kitchen and cross-passage.