Pen-y-parc Farmhouse

Pen-y-parc Farmhouse is a farmhouse, originally dating to the 17th century, and extended in the 18th and 19th centuries. The house is rendered and painted over what is probably local sandstone rubble, with Welsh slate roofs. The main block is rectangular and single depth, with a central rear projection that gives the building a double-depth appearance. A gabled rear wing extends from the centre of the main block, connecting to a converted barn that now functions as a studio. A gabled entrance porch is located at the rear, and a modern conservatory sits in the angle formed by the main block and the barn.

The south elevation has been given a balanced five-bay Georgian appearance, with a central doorway topped by a hood on brackets, and a partly glazed door. The windows are all 6 over 6 pane sashes, complete with horns. The steeply pitched roof reveals the 17th-century origins of the original block, with a tall stack on the left-hand gable, a larger stack positioned in the cross passage, and another built externally on the right-hand gable. The rear gable of the rear wing has a paired sash window above, with a small modern window to the left and a cross-framed casement (likely Victorian) below, and a stack above. The rear elevation of this wing incorporates a mixture of casement and modern windows. Snow boards are visible at the gutter line. The left gable of the main block features a 6 over 6 sash window above a door leading into the conservatory below. The rear wing has another 6 over 6 sash with a smaller, multi-paned window below. The rear elevation of this wing is largely obscured. The central wing at the rear projects from the original kitchen stack and has its own large stack, together with two 2-light casement windows featuring small panes and another window in the gable end. The attached barn has large roof lights.

The interior was substantially modified in the early 19th century and later. The entrance hall contains an altered staircase and a fireplace, and likely represents an adaptation of the original 17th-century three-unit plan. A room to the right includes early 19th-century joinery and plasterwork, displaying a large, elliptically headed alcove on the rear wall, suggesting its original use as a dining room with a serving buffet alcove. The room also features shutters with fielded panels. Fireplaces throughout the house have been altered, as have the other rooms, including the kitchen in the rear wing, which retains roughly chamfered ceiling beams.