Walled Court at Cristin

Walled court of farm buildings within enclosing wall of stone rubble, raised high on SW side as retaining wall, due to slope of ground, with 7 raking buttresses and capped with stepped square blocks. Entrance through elliptical brick arch in NW wall. The one-storey buildings are arranged against the enclosing walls of the court and are of stone rubble with slate roofs. L-plan main range along NE side and part of SE side, comprising from NW: barn, cowshed, smaller barn, stable in angle, and cartshed at end. Two pig-kitchens in line with brick ridge stack between, in W corner, against NW wall. Two sets of lean-to pigsties central to SW wall. L-plan range has from left: small window, loop, door to barn, door, door and window. SE return has door and brick elliptical-arched cart-entry. Loft light in end gable. Slab lintels to stable-type doors generally, window has glazing bars over boarded lower half. Rear of NE range has gable to left with door, and doors into rear of 2 barns. Pig-kitchens have left gable-end door, 2 windows and door to side wall. Pigsties have rubble stone low front walls and slate dividing walls between each pair of sties. Cobbled paths along fronts of buildings.

Two-bay barn has slate floor with wooden inset threshing floor. Cobbled floors elsewhere. Collar-truss roofs.