Llanerch

Llanerch is a farmhouse with associated farm buildings, situated downhill and constructed primarily with slate rubble laid on slate beds and whitewashed. It has a slate roof and the farmhouse and farm buildings are positioned in line, following the contours of the land, with the farm building at the lower end and the farmhouse at the higher end. The main entrance door, now made of uPVC and deeply recessed in the northeast wall, has been repositioned from its original location adjacent to the cross wing, where it was previously sheltered by a porch. uPVC windows are now fitted throughout, and a small dormer window has been added to the upper floor room (bathroom) above the dairy in the end wing. Timber lintels are also present. The farmhouse has a partially external stack at the upper end and on the end of the wing.

Inside, the main living room features chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, a large inglenook gable fireplace with a blocked opening on its left, which may have been an oven or smoking cupboard, and a dog-leg staircase to the right of the stack. A door near the staircase leads to the dairy, which is now the kitchen. The inner bay is divided into two, showing evidence of a cruck truss in the gable end abutting the farm building. The stairwell beside the fireplace is timber framed, with signs of a further extant cruck in the northwest gable end, and indications that the roof was raised, possibly in the 17th century. The roof now carries two tiers of purlins. The central collar beam and strut truss of the house has principal rafters trenched for purlins, with additional rafters supporting a single tier of purlins at a higher level. The joints of this truss are numbered with a chisel, and the ridge piece is set at an angle.

The barn, aligned with the farmhouse, contains two pairs of curved cruck trusses set on a wall plate resting on stone footing walls. The barn appears to have been widened along its southwest side, retaining the winnowing floor with evidence of flanking half walls. Tie beams and collars are trenched and double tosh-pegged over the cruck blades, with the apex abutted. The third truss, located at the lower end before the two-storey end extension, is of a collar and tie beam construction. This end bay contains a cowhouse at the lower level, and perhaps a granary above.