Ty?n Llwyn, a farmhouse located north-east of Pontarfynach, was converted into a hotel and renamed the Woodlands Hotel early in the twentieth century. The building faces south and is three storeys high and three symmetrical bays wide. There are rows of three evenly-spaced sash windows in the second and third storeys. The ground floor has a central entrance through a gabled porch, to either side of which is a sash window in line with the other windows above. The porch has a lancet window in its southern wall and is entered through the eastern wall. There are chimneys in both gable ends of the main wing. The eastern gable end of the main wing has two sash windows each in the second and third storeys. The first storey has two bay windows, separated and aligned with the windows above but under a single extended roof. A three-storey rear extension continues under a catslide roof behind the eastern two bays of the main wing. It has single windows in its second and third storeys and a door flanked by windows in the ground storey as well as a small chimney on its north-east corner. The windows in this extension are situated lower than the windows in the gable end of the main wing. A further two-storey rear extension was added under a roof of the same plane a few decades later, adding a further two bays of windows on the building's eastern face.

(Sources: RCAHMW, Charlie Downes Postcard Collection, 567293; RCAHMW, Peter Davis Digitised Postcards Collection, 853160 and 583161)
A.N. Coward, RCAHMW, 04.05.2018