Pencoed

Much of the present structure of Pencoed dates from the 16th and 17th centuries. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales identifies earlier medieval origins, with Tudor and later additions. Cadw supports this interpretation and suggests that the building began as a country mansion, and was subsequently adapted to serve as a farmhouse.

The building is of two storeys and built to a cross-passage plan. The construction material is local rubble under a Welsh slate roof. The architectural historian John Newman, in his Glamorgan volume of the Buildings of Wales, noted the "magnificent but inexplicable archway, so fine, and so large, that it implies the existence of an impressive medieval house now otherwise disappeared". Peter Smith, in his study, Houses of the Welsh Countryside, records the house as having a single, central chimneystack. Pencoed is a Grade II* listed building.