Braich y Saint

Braich y Saint is a Grade II listed building featuring two main sections. The eastern building is constructed from roughly coursed slate rubble and has a slate roof with end wall stacks. The right-hand stack is corbelled out and is mostly a recent reconstruction based on the original design. The building has a small two-unit plan that originally included an internal cross-passage. The entrance is located towards the center and features a steep split stone voussoir arch. The door is a late 20th-century replica of an earlier style, adorned with studs and fine strapwork hinges. There are small window openings on each floor, which have been renewed as pivoting windows with small panes. Inside, the staircase winds up alongside the stack in the larger left-hand room.

The main building's exterior reveals that the earliest part is the rear wing to the west, likely dating from the late 16th century, which was later raised to match the height of the front range added around 1780. This front range is built from roughly coursed and squared slate blocks, featuring slobbered pointing and smooth rendered dressings. The earlier rear wing has rougher stonework made from smaller blocks. The building has slate roofs throughout, with hipped roofs and end wall stacks on the front block, and a gable end stack on the wing. The front block is a high two-storey structure with a three-window range. The central entrance features a recessed four-panelled door with a radial fanlight, flanked by 12-pane sash windows. The first floor has similar windows, as do the return elevations. The integral rear wing to the northwest is clearly distinguishable as the earlier phase and contains two 12-pane sash windows on the first floor that do not align with the lower windows, which include a tripartite window and a 12-pane sash. A lower rear wing, likely added during the late 18th-century remodelling to provide service accommodation, connects this building to another house on the site.

Inside, the bisected 16th-century part of the house features angular stops to chamfered beams that panel the ceiling, along with a chamfered bressumer above a wide rear wall fireplace.