Braich y Saint

Braich y Saint is a Grade II listed building that features two main sections. The eastern building is constructed of roughly coursed slate rubble and has a slate roof with end wall stacks. The right-hand stack is corbelled out and is largely a recent reconstruction, though it is based on the earlier 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 type, with studs and fine strapwork hinges. Small window openings on each floor 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 oldest part is the rear wing to the west, which likely dates to the late 16th century. This wing was raised at some point to match the height of the front range, which was added around 1780. The front range is built of roughly coursed and squared slate blocks, featuring slobbered pointing and smooth rendered dressings. The earlier rear wing has rougher stonework made of smaller blocks. Both sections have slate roofs, with the front block having hipped roofs and end wall stacks, while the wing has a gable end stack. The front block is two stories high and has a three-window range. The central entrance includes a recessed four-panelled door with a radial fanlight, flanked by 12-pane sash windows. Similar windows are found on the first floor and in the return elevations. The integral rear wing to the northwest is clearly distinguishable as the earlier phase, featuring two 12-pane sash windows on the first floor that do not align with the lower windows, which consist of a tripartite window and a 12-pane sash. The lower rear wing, likely added during the late 18th-century remodeling, provides service accommodation. Additional extensions, including a former dairy, connect this building to another house on the site.

Inside the rear section of the house, which dates back to the 16th century, there are angular stops to the chamfered beams that panel the ceiling, along with a chamfered bressumer above a wide rear wall fireplace.