Cefn-caer

Built of local limewashed stone, including stone retrieved from the Roman fort. Slate roofs. One storey and attic. The main house consists of 3 bays, the upper, right bay extended forward as a gable, and the building continues to the right beyond the former gable stack by a further two bays in line, probably at one time farm buildings. Entrance in the centre bay, a narrow stone doorcase with 3-centre arched head, and stone hood on brackets over. Sixteen-paned sash windows to ground and attic floors, the latter in small raised dormers, and all with similar stone hoods. Major stone stack on left gable end, and a secondary stack to the right of the entrance passage. A blocked opening with similar label hood surviving to the left of the entrance. The two right hand bays have a door and irregular C20 glazed windows, and a garage door in the end bay. Modern brick stack. The rear elevation is similar, with three small gables, the centre one narrower, and 16-paned sashes to each bay.

A farm building is attached to the SW gable end in line and at a lower level. It has rubble walls with openings to the SE, and a galvanised metal roof.

The present S porch and door enters the W bay of a 3-bay hall which originally had an open fireplace and dais at the E end, under a canopy formed by an internal jetty of the upper floor chamber over. Beyond a fine chamfered post and panel partition lay the parlour or withdrawing room, entered through doorways with double-elliptical heads at each end of the partition. The W end bay consisted of a small and large service rooms with direct access to the hall, one apparently and unusually in the form of a semi-cellar. The two medieval roof trusses over the hall consist of arch-braced collar beams with cusped raking struts forming a quatrefoil and flanking trefoils in the apex. Two tiers of purlins braced by cusped windbraces, and slight evidence for the original ridge louvre. Tie and collar beam trusses at each end of the hall, with studded partitions bearing traces of C17 wall paintings. Large inserted fireplace, and a fine open joisted ceiling with chamfered bar-stop joists, some decorated with a carpenter's gouge on the soffit. The interior was in the process of being opened up and restored at the time of inspection.