DescriptionCirca 15th century (east) and 16th century (west) restorations. Stone, slated, 2 storey (west), 1 storey (east). Inscribed stone in N.W. gable. Interesting joists. Decsription in Caernarvonshire Inventory I.
[Additional:] Site description and tree-ring dating reported in Vernacular Architecure 42 (2011):
x. LLECHWEDD, Cymryd-isaf (SH 7923 7588)
(a) Phase 2: Pantry ceiling Felling date ranges: 1491-1521 and 1523-53
(b) Phase 4: Hall ceiling Felling date ranges: 1474-88 and 1519-43
(a) Joists (2/4) 1512(H/S), 1480(?H/S). (b) Joists (2/5) 1518(17), 1468(22+6NM); Mantelbeam (0/1); Door jamb (0/1); Screen muntin (0/1); Upper screen jamb (0/1). Site Master 1383-1518 CYMRYD (t = 7.7 WALES97; 7.2 GWYDWN; 7.2 DENBY7a).
Cymryd-isaf is in origin a substantial three-unit hall-house with lateral chimney and central truss with cusped struts. Outer bay, cross-passage, and hall survive but the inner-room has been rebuilt as a substantial cross-wing. The hall-house seems to have been built in the late C15th and floored over (as the Caernarvonshire Inventory points out) in two stages. In a further phase, dated 1696 by inscription, the cross-wing was built. Further analysis of this house is needed. Plan and account in RCAHMW, Caernarvonshire Inventory, Volume I: East (1956), pp.161-2. Dating commissioned by NWWDP in partnership with RCAHMW. (R.F. SUGGETT/RCAHMW/July 2011)
