Bryn-Y-Cagley Hall

Bryn-y-Cagley Hall is a farmhouse dating to the late 16th or 17th century, with alterations and additions from the late 18th century and mid-to-late 19th century. It was likely originally timber framed, but was rebuilt and extended using coursed limestone rubble with a slate roof. The building originally comprised a single-room end lobby-entry plan, with later additions to the east and west. The front features two gables, the left one with pigeon-resting boxes arranged in two rows, and the right one containing a blocked segmental-headed window. A large lateral stone stack with a brick top sits at the angle of one wing at the rear, and there are integral brick end and lateral stacks at the rear of the other blocks. The right-hand side of the front has a three-window arrangement, with 20th-century two- and three-light casement windows; a blocked window sits on the first floor to the right. The central doorway has a 20th-century panelled door. A two-storey addition to the left has a first-floor two-light casement, a ground-floor three-light casement, and a 20th-century panelled door to its right. The right-hand block contains 18th-century glazing bar sash windows, and a gable-end at the rear has a further sash window. A boarded door with a bracketed hood is found in the angle of a wing at the rear. The interior of a ground-floor room in the 17th-century part of the house has a chamfered cross-beam ceiling and a large fireplace with a chamfered lintel, a roasting jack, and a charcoal burner, located to the right. Evidence of weathering on the base of the stack suggests a possible former thatched roof. An agricultural or domestic wing at the rear was recently demolished (in October 1984).