Bryndraenog

The 3-bay hall retains its moulded base crucks with arched-brace trusses. Concealed by a plaster ceiling are 3 tiers of cusped windbraces, arcades of trefoiled ogee tracery above the collar beams, and subsidiary arched-brace trusses. The passage bay has a short section of castellated wooden bressumer inside the E door, but it is obscured by the inserted gallery, dated 1636, with stout turned balusters. A straight stair has similar balusters but sawn flat on the inner side. Wooden panelling is at either end of the gallery. In the S wing is a hall with fireplace and timber lintel, and with a plain joist-beam ceiling. The E wall has a section of exposed timber framing. The former solar above, now subdivided, retains 3 tiers of windbraces. The chamber over the porch has an arched-brace roof with cusped struts.

A U-shaped 2-storey house comprising hall with gabled wings. Of pebble-dashed and rubble stone walls, slate roof and brick stacks to the wings. Windows are mainly 2-light casements in earlier openings. The E front has a 2-storey gabled porch L of centre, which is open-fronted in the lower storey on timber posts and lintel. The boarded door to the passage bay has studs and strap hinges. To the R of the porch is a tall square-headed 4-light transomed hall window with ogee-headed wooden tracery. Further R is an added short parlour wing with lateral external stack, rebuilt in brick above the eaves. In its gable end it has a 3-light window in an earlier wider opening, and above it a 4-light wooden mullioned and transomed window with ovolo mouldings. The N wing gable end has a similar window a under hood mould in the lower storey. The window above it has been replaced by a 3-light iron-framed casement in a similar hooded opening. The S wing has 3-light replaced casements in both storeys.

The N wall of the N wing forms a 4-window front to a separate dwelling, with windows under concrete lintels. It has a central boarded door and 2-light casements, except at the R end where the window has boarded shutters. Further R is a vertical joint and the added stable and granary. This has a stone segmental-headed doorway L of centre with boarded door and 2 loft openings beneath the eaves. The gable end is weatherboarded, with a wide doorway on the R side. The corresponding S wall of the S wing has a 5-window elevation with uneven C19 and C20 fenestration, including an upper-storey window in an older opening, and French doors lower R. Further L it has been extended and is brought slightly forward, with two 3-light casements in each storey. The S wing has a further, C20 extension to its gable end.

Facing the courtyard at the rear of the house, the hall range has two 3-light casements in the lower storey, 2-light casements above. To the R end is a glazed door in a slight projection in the position of the hall passage bay, with small window above. The 2-window N wing has a doorway to the L, 2-light and 1-light lower-storey windows and 2-light upper-storey windows. A vertical joint separates the wing from the stable and granary. This has inserted wide boarded doors, above which is the segmental head of an earlier doorway. To its L are stone steps, with treads renewed in concrete, to a boarded loft door, to the R of which are 2 loft openings. A later flight of steps, also with replaced concrete treads, has been added to the outer side of the original stairs. The 3-window S wing has 2-light casements and replaced door to the R where the wing was lengthened.