Retyn Farmhouse

This is a farmhouse, dating from the late 17th to early 18th century, with additions made in the later 18th century, and further alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of rendered stone rubble, with some rendered cob in the rear wall. The roof is thatched with gable ends. The farmhouse originally had a two-room plan with a central passage, a kitchen to the left and a parlour to the right. Around the mid-18th century, an outshut of single storey and loft was added to the rear, containing unheated dairies and a central stair. Later in the 19th century, a single-room plan wing was added to the rear left as a kitchen, heated from a gable end stack at the rear, built into the bank. Further additions were made to the left side of this wing in the later 19th and 20th centuries. The front of the farmhouse is asymmetrical with three windows. The ground floor features a panelled and glazed door set in a 20th-century thatched porch on wooden posts. There are 19th-century 16-pane sash windows to the right and left, with timber lintels. The first floor has three 2-light 8-pane casements dating from the early 20th century. The right end features a 19th-century 16-pane sash at first floor. The outshut has a 6-pane light at ground floor, a 16-pane sash at first floor, and an asbestos slate roof. The rear of the outshut has two 2-light 20th-century casements at ground floor and one at first floor. The left side of the farmhouse is rendered, with two single-storey 20th-century additions. A two-storey addition is situated at the side of the rear wing, containing a 16-pane sash window at ground floor and a 12-pane sash window at first floor, both 20th-century replacements. The rear wing includes a glazed 20th-century door and a gable end stack with a brick shaft, covered by an asbestos slate roof. Inside, the passage is wide, with an 18th-century screen partition wall to the left, featuring raised moulded fillets. The front room has an early 18th-century 2-panelled door and a 20th-century fireplace. A 19th-century 6-panelled door, with re-used HL hinges, leads to the room to the front left. The fireplace in this room has been rebuilt, but a clom oven remains. The outshut’s dog-leg stair has stick balusters. The first floor rooms are ceiled, and the roof includes trusses with roughly hewn principal rafters and halved and pegged collars.