Haulfryn

Haulfryn is a house dating from the early 18th century, constructed of blue-grey Llanbedrog granite with grey slate roofs and stone coping. A service wing was added around 1921, and a sun room to the south around 1930. The stonework is squared and roughly tooled, with grey quoins and slab lintels. Small-paned windows are set almost flush with the wall face.

The west front has two shouldered gables framing a recessed entrance. The right gable has a stack in its left corner, a pair of casement windows to the first floor centre, and a single casement window to the ground floor left. The left gable lacks a corner stack and has a pair of casements over three single casements. The recessed centre features a flat coped parapet above a flat roof, displaying finely carved Minoprio family arms in dark-green stone. There are casement pairs on each floor to the right, and a long stair-light to the left. The entrance features a heavy plank door beneath a slab lintel, protected by a massively detailed stone gabled hood supported by roughly shaped corbels and stone slabs, finished with coping and slates.

The service range added to the left of the left gable is two-storey with a three-window range, a flat parapet, and casement-pair windows. A parapet conceals a light well. A two-window range is at the north end, followed by a set-back gable at the north end of the garden front.

The garden front presents a long three-window range with a similar gable over the third bay, the gable featuring a tall chimney from the left shoulder. Gables are coped, while roofs have sprocketted eaves. There are four-light casements to each floor on the left and centre, with a ledged door between, and a three-light casement to the right gable. The added service wing on the right is slightly recessed, with a ridge stack and first-floor casements, a four-light and a three-light. Ground floor left reveals an attractive former recessed seat, now opened into the house with French windows and a segmental arched pent roof. A three-light casement stands to the ground floor right. The north end gable is visible.

On the south end wall, a ground-floor timber-glazed sun room has been added, comprising five bays with a glazed timber roof and four windows. A casement pair is above in the left side of the right gable.

Inside, the stair to the left of the entrance has pierced white-painted flat balusters. Ground floor rooms have relatively low ceilings, with plastered beams to the southeast room. Unusual plasterwork decorates a bedroom on the ground floor centre. The cornices possess reliefs depicting the owners’ hobbies – horses, dogs, yachts, flowers, and pigeons. Similar themes are continued in imitation Delft tiles around the fireplace, which is surmounted by a large relief of racing yachts dated 1929.