Merry Shiels Farmhouse And Attached Farm Buildings

Merry Shiels Farmhouse and attached farm buildings is a planned farmstead from the early 19th century, constructed from dressed stone and topped with a Welsh slate roof. The layout consists of three symmetrical ranges surrounding a courtyard.

The north range features a two-storey, three-bay farmhouse with attached single-storey, one-bay byres. The house has a 20th-century door with an overlight and four-pane sash windows with moulded reveals. It has a gabled roof with overlapping coping and two end stacks. The byre on the right has a plank door, while the byre on the left has been converted into a garage. Short walls with plank doors connect the north range to the projecting single-storey ranges.

The east range includes six elliptical arches that once sheltered sheds, three of which are now blocked. To the right of these arches is a former two-bay cottage, now used for storage, featuring a door and window in an alternating-block surround. This cottage has a hipped roof with a square corniced ridge stack.

The west range serves as a byre and stable, containing three plank doors and two half-slatted windows. There is a blocked elliptical arch that used to be a cart shed on the left, and this range also has a hipped roof.