This is a long row of ornamental cottages (No's 1-8, consecutively) backing on to St. Cynog's churchyard, at the northern end of Defynnog, on the west side of the A4067. They are mid-19th century, Tudor Gothic style buildings with 2 storey rubble fronts and 3 taller cross-gables with freestone dressings (and partly painted). They have slate roofs with oversailing eaves, cusped barge boards and eaves boards, large rubble stacks with 4 diagonal brick stems to each. There are rectangular dripmoulds to the cross-gables and ground floor (linked to No's 1 and 2). No's 1 and 2 have splayed window openings with 2 and 3-light cross-frames. The rest have 3-light mullioned windows to the ground floor with single lights above. All the houses have pointed, chamfered door openings with vertically boarded doors (No's 3, 5 and 6 are studded). No 8 has a door and left hand window grouped under a pointed arch (possibly a former arched entry). They were listed as buildings of value as a group.
(Source: Addition to CADW List of Buildings of a Special Architectural or Historic Interest, Borough of Brecknock, List No. 18, 8 November 1985).
Ian Archer, RCAHMW, 10th March 2005
