Home Farm, Plas Newydd

Home Farm is a farm complex with buildings arranged in a U-plan around three sides of a courtyard, open to the north. The main architectural features date from an earlier period, with later additions including a stable range on the north side of the courtyard added in the late 19th century and a third entrance created in the northeast corner in the early 20th century.

The East and West wings are two storeys tall with hipped slate roofs and raised pyramidal roofs over the entrance archways. They are linked at the south by a single storey range with a pitched slate roof. The walls throughout are constructed of roughly squared rubble masonry with cambered brick arch heads to the openings and slate sills.

The East Wing comprises the main entrance archway under a raised pyramidal roof with a louvred cupola, with a stone arched head on the exterior and a brick arched head on the interior. To the north of the entrance are servant's quarters, a two-storey three-window range with doors at either end, the right-hand door being a stable door. The walls and chimney are rendered, with later small-paned windows set into the original openings with cambered heads. Attached to the north end is a single storey boiling house with a lean-to slate roof and tall brick chimney. To the south of the archway is a lofted stable range including a small farm office, tack-room, stables and loose-boxes, with three cambered-headed doorways and two windows between. The windows to the left are 8 and 10-pane lights over hit-and-miss ventilators, while the stable windows have 14-pane lights over similar ventilators. Boarded doors are present to the left with a stable door to the right end and a full-height boarded door to the loft with a sack hoist.

The South Range is a single storey 21-bay range comprising a 9-bay cowhouse to the east and a 12-bay hammel to the west. The cowhouse originally had 7 doors with vertical slits between; it now has 2 doors and 5 windows with 3-pane lights and hit-and-miss ventilators. The hammel has lower walls and arched doors of brick with upper courses of stone. Nine of the 12 original doorways are blocked, with 4 converted to form windows. The hammel yard has been built over with modern brick dairy buildings.

The West Wing has an entrance archway under a raised pyramidal roof and cupola identical to the East entrance. To the south is an asymmetrical 6-bay corn-barn with 3 rows of slit vents and full-height threshing doors with brick heads to the inner face and stone to the outer. To the north of the entrance, with a lower roofline than the corn-barn, is a 4-bay cartshed with a 4-window granary above. The cart bay to the right has been blocked with a smaller door inserted forming the back door of the farmhouse, and the bay to the left has been converted to a wide window. The two granary windows over the right end have modern domestic windows forming the back of the farmhouse. Two brick chimneys are present. On the ground floor to the left end is a boarded door to the granary. To the right of the cartshed is an advanced two-storey two-window domestic wing with a hipped slate roof, central brick chimney and small-paned sash windows.

The Farmhouse, on the west side of the cartshed-granary, is a two-storey three-window range with a central gabled porch and asymmetrical window arrangement, showing its conversion from its original function as an agricultural building. The added porch has a round stone arched window. To the left is a 12-pane sash window; to the right a 20-pane French window, both square-headed. The first floor window above the porch and to the right has a cambered brick head and small-paned windows. A larger window to the left has a square head. Abutting the north side of the farmhouse is a smaller cottage, also converted from an agricultural building and known as the Dairymaid's Cottage, with modern windows and brick architraves cut into the gable end.

On the north side of the courtyard is a single storey stable range with stabling for 7 horses. Two bays to the right are original, with 5 bays added to the left. It has rubble walls and a gabled slate roof. In the north corner of the courtyard, next to the entrance created in the early 20th century, is a loose box for 2 horses with a small yard either side, featuring rubble walls and a hipped slate roof with a pitched roof addition to the north. A blocked door is present on the east side.

On the east side of the East Wing, to the right of the entrance, is a 2-bay dairy with a slate lean-to roof. Attached to the yard wall north of the dairy is a 2-unit pigsty with a slate lean-to roof.

The main buildings have sawn and bolted king-post with struts roof trusses. A bell is present in the louvred cupola over the East archway, and water tanks are located in the loft below.