Garth Fach

Garth Fach is a disused farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, with its eaves raised in the late 17th century and later additions and alterations. The building is timber framed, featuring rendered woven and painted red brick infill on an uncoursed limestone rubble plinth that is higher in the center, topped with a graded slate roof. It consists of a two-cell house part with a contemporary two-bay byre attached to the right. The structure is one storey with an attic.

The framing includes square panels, with two extending from the cill to the original wall-plate and one above due to the raising of the eaves. There is a 19th-century casement window in the framing panel to the left and a 19th-century gabled eaves dormer in the center. Additionally, there is a small 19th-century casement window at the top of the plinth to the left of a 19th-century rubblestone and brick lean-to on the right, which has a corrugated iron roof and a segmental-headed stable door.

The left gable end features mid-to-late 18th-century red brick, which includes an integral end stack. There is a rubblestone projection at the back housing a bread oven. Inside, the framing remains intact, including in the cross-walls. The ground-floor room of the house part has a chamfered spine beam with straight-cut stops and a partly infilled inglenook fireplace that contains a 19th-century cast-iron cooking range. To the right of the fireplace is an inset cupboard with a plank door and strap hinges. An oak winder staircase with a plain handrail is located to the left.

The central area features a smoke-blackened queen-strut truss with curved principal rafters. The wall between the house and the byre has a high red brick plinth with closely set vertical posts and halved branches, with lathe and plaster infill above to the apex. The byre, which has always been open to the roof, contains queen-strut trusses with curved principal rafters, and the gable end has V-struts from the collar. There are slots for trenched single purlins, and the raised roof is also of the single-purlin type. The lean-to includes 19th-century cowstalls.