Pant-glas Farmhouse

The interior was only partly seen at resurvey. The main door enters a cross-passage, but the rear door to this is now enclosed in a cupboard. The original staircase, and any possible C18 replacement, have gone and the present one is a C20 rearrangement. There is a c1600 stone fireplace with reeded surround in one room, but the other rooms and the upstairs were not seen. The cellar has an elliptical stone vault.

The house is built of carefully squared and coursed near ashlar sandstone, with concrete tile roofs on the front range and Welsh slate on the rear. It is an L-plan cross-passage house with a rear service wing. The main entrance elevation has a Georgian appearance, which gives a quite false impression as the building is considerably older. It has a main three bay, two storey and attic range with an off-centre entrance. The entrance is flanked by attached Doric columns, and has a 4-centred archway up three steps. The doorway carries the date 1732 inscribed above the arch. The doorway is c1600 but the pediment is probably 1732 and was put on to protect the carved stonework, but it could be much more recent than that. All the windows are 6 over 6 pane sashes, but the original window type is presumably as represented on the rear wing or the rear wall of the main range. Steeply pitched roof with three gabled dormers, all 6 + 6 pane casements, these date from c1975. Stone end stacks with weathered caps. The right hand gable is featureless. The left hand gable end has a 2 over 4 pane casment on the ground floor and a garret casement in the gable. The base of the gable wall is thicker and the stone coursing is different. It contains a pointed arch doorway with chamfered stone surround leading to the cellar. The gable wall above this is of one build with the rear wing which also has three windows arranged unevenly. The four windows to the left have sunk moulded stone surrounds with C19 timber casements, the lower ones are of 2-lights with a stone mullion. Between these windows and the right hand ones is a segmentally arched doorway with glazed door at the head of a flight of stairs. The other windows are cross-framed C19 casements. Stone stack to left hand gable end. The rear of the entrance range has an added lean-to covering the ground floor, above this is an original 2-light window with 4-centred heads. This wall is in random rubble, as is the rear wall of the kitchen wing which has a lean-to porch for the kitchen door and a 3-light casement in a blocked doorway which seems originally to have opened onto a second cross-passage. Above are three small casements.