Disused Farmhouse at Bodfan

The disused farmhouse at Bodfan is a two-storey building with an attic, featuring a rectangular plan and five bays, oriented roughly east-west. It is constructed from irregularly coursed rubblestone, which is mostly roughcast, with cut slabs used for the chimney stacks. The roof is slate, although the back slope has been replaced with asbestos sheeting, and much of the slate covering was missing at the time of the survey.

The front of the building has a continuous slate drip above the heads of the ground- and first-floor windows, serving as string courses. Only two windows are visible, as the others have been completely infilled. The visible windows are two-light plain timber mullion windows, though the glazing is gone. The ground floor windows and the original central entrance now feature 19th-century stable ventilators. There are tall integral end stacks with slate drips and capping, and a much-worn stone plaque above the original entrance.

At the rear, there is a doorway on the left side of the first floor, which is accessed by a straight flight of stone steps. The western side of these steps is formed by a large 19th-century rubblestone lean-to, which interrupts a first-floor window. There is another first-floor window to the right. Attached to the east gable end is a 19th-century rubblestone outbuilding with a graded slate roof, which is half-hipped at the east end and features paired double doors under massive stone lintels.

A proper inspection of the farmhouse was not possible due to its poor condition, but it was noted that much of the timberwork and other features remain intact, although in a very poor state. The original five-bay roof structure is largely intact, with substantial pegged collar trusses, the collars cambered and pegged to the face of the principal rafters, and double purlins. However, the common rafters only survive on the front slope.