Tan-y-fynwynt

Tan-y-fynwynt

This is a farmhouse comprising two distinct phases of building. The older house is a low, fully lofted farmhouse with gable end chimneys, built of rubble walls on a boulder foundation, partly rendered. It has a steeply pitched slate roof and tall gable end stacks with dripstones and capping, rendered. The chimney to the right serving the inglenook is a recent rebuild based on the dimensions of the original, which had been replaced by a smaller brick chimney. The back door on the north side is offset to the right, with a wide window to the left serving the main room, a smaller window to the extreme left serving the pantry, and a small window to the right lighting the stairs, now blocked by later building. In the east gable is a recent window cut to the ground floor, with an original window to the loft. All window frames are replacements.

Attached to the west end of the north side of the original house is a single storey dairy and boiling house with rubble walls, a roof covering of corrugated iron, and a massive square chimney to the gable end. To the west of the dairy is a complete horse engine of cast iron, originally used for churning. Abutting the west gable wall of the house is a late 19th-century lean-to dairy or cold store, accessed from the boiling house.

The original house internally has a gable end inglenook fireplace serving a larger room, with two smaller rooms to the east partitioned by in-and-out boarding. Alongside the inglenook, in the north-west corner, is a winding wooden staircase. The main elevation of the original house faced south, with a central door flanked by windows. The ceiling has two heavy transverse beams with stop-chamfered joists, mostly stepped ogee stops, with some run-out stops and flat stops. The inglenook fireplace has a simple oak bresummer, with a brick-lined oven in the right corner. To the right of the inglenook is a crudely-made winding wooden staircase, originally lit by a window now blocked by later building but not infilled. The roof structure is of three bays, with two collared trusses with shaped and stop-chamfered collars, pegged. The loft is sub-divided by a partition of in-and-out boarding, with the smaller part to the east having a small fireplace and gable end window. The outline of former windows to the south wall can be seen, probably dormer windows.

A taller, two-storey, three-window farmhouse was built abutting the long south wall of the original house, probably in the mid-19th century, now forming the front of the house. It comprises coursed rubble walls, thin slate roof covering with slate copings, and gable end stacks, rendered. Windows are 12-pane horned sashes with rendered shouldered architraves. Narrow 8-pane sash windows to the east gable (one to ground floor and two to first floor) have flat brick arch heads. A bay window is set to the west gable wall. A brick lean-to dairy is attached to the abutting gable end. When the second house was added, two windows of the original house's main elevation were made redundant but not infilled, with one now in the cupboard under the stairs retaining horizontal sliding sash windows, and the other being used as a cupboard. A door cuts through to the first floor of the new house. The new house has a central stair hall plan with four-panel doors and full-height reveals to windows. The walls to the hall and stairs are painted plaster with imitation ashlar scoring.