Mid C18 origins as a small house and attached general store. Piecemeal building development throughout C19 as business expanded and diversified. Established by John Price of Penybont Hall; taken over by the Thomas family in 1805. In its heyday in the late C19 the premises included, besides a large shop, a tailor's workshop, a large laundry, a tea warehouse and a seed merchant. Closed 1958.

Description of exterior: from front left, late C19 two-storey domestic range in red brick with twin gables and gabled porch. Slate roof, brick end stack. Door replaced by modern window with fanlight head, windows are large multi-pane lights with chamfered frames. Early C19 rubble stone wing adjoins, entrance front is rendered studwork, brick end stack, glazed door, upper window sash with horns. Shop front elevation in rendered studwork, raised roofline, hipped slate roof. Central double door of framed boards with large overlight. Ground floor windows, large multipane lights; upper windows, twelve-pane sashes with horns in older flush-set moulded surrounds. Mid C19 two-storey gable wing adjoins to right (storeroom and outfitters), decorative bargeboards, large multi-pane upper window, double boarded doors. Later C19 two-storey laundry range adjoins in brick with brick stack and slate roof. Rear elevations show lean-to's to the old house and the shop, in rubble stone and brick. The original part of the house has walls raised in stud and weatherboards and a stud extension with large multi-pane windows to provide light for a tailors' workroom. Original large rubble stack.

Outbuilding range: mid C19 building known as The Tea House. Constructed as warehouse and coachhouse serving the former general stores. One-and-a-half storeys, painted rubble stone, tin roof. Decorative bargeboards, "Gothic" window with ashlar arched head in east gable, large double doors below and at west end. Interior plastered throughout. Exposed beam and joists, plain staircase. Later C19 stud and weatherboarded premises formerly seed merchant adjoins at west end.

(Source: Cadw Listiongs database) S Garfi 26/9/06