Farmbuildings North West Of Bryncalled Farmhouse

A range of farm buildings dating from around 1790 is located to the north-west of Bryncalled Farmhouse. These buildings are constructed from coursed slatestone rubble and weatherboard over a timber frame, featuring gabled Welsh slate roofs, with some areas covered in corrugated iron. The buildings form a south-facing U-plan and are two storeys high.

The western range includes, starting from the south, a two-bay granary with stone steps on the left, a two-bay cartshed with double entry on the ground floor, and a five-bay barn with plank double doors and plank loft doors on the rear (west) elevation. The north cowhouse range features a two-storey, three-bay structure to the west with plank doors, and a one-window range with plank doors that was rebuilt in the mid-19th century, along with a fodder room projection to the north.

Connected to the east range is a short wall, which has a three-bay shelter shed supported by wood posts on padstones to the north of a two-storey stable/cowhouse that includes stone steps leading to the loft and plank stable doors with 10-foot openings.

Inside, the buildings showcase late 18th-century king-post and side-strut roofs. The barn contains loft floors and framed partitions flanking a threshing floor, with plank doors set in weatherboard partitions leading to the ground-floor rooms. The late 18th-century cowhouse to the west of the north range features a transverse passage between stalls, while the mid-19th-century cowhouse to the east includes a feeding passage and a fodder room at the rear of the stalls. The stable/cowhouse range has a feeding rack against the north wall and a feeding passage to the rear of the stalls to the south.

This complex is a well-preserved example of a late 18th-century U-plan layout that once served a 300-acre farm.