Former house at Hafod Ifan

The building is a former house situated at Hafod Ifan. It dates to the late 18th century, with a later addition.

The main range is a long, gabled structure built of rubble stone with squared quoins to the eastern gable. It has a continuous roof of old slate. A projecting lateral chimney breast, from which the stack has been removed, is on the left side, with a blocked entrance and a window above, now reduced to a small ventilation slit. To the right is a large, late 19th-century slate-lintelled opening, and beyond it, plain window openings to the ground and first floors, the ground-floor window being blocked. Further to the right is an entrance with a slate lintel and boarded stable doors within a wooden frame, accompanied by small, flanking primary window openings, the left one close to ground level. Another entrance with stable doors and a slate lintel is on the right, and at the west gable end is a boarded upper loading bay. Slit-vents are present on the east gable, indicating the former location of large ground and first-floor windows. A large, modern sloping buttress has been built to the rear, with a smaller projecting lateral chimney to the left, and a later 18th-century addition is also present.

Adjoining the main range to the north, at the eastern end, is another block, slightly lower and one-and-a-half stories high. It is built in the same style, with a large, squat stack to the north gable end and pronounced weathercoursing. The original lateral chimney of the main range is now incorporated into this addition, and a large 20th-century opening is visible on the farmyard side. An entrance on the east side has a recessed, boarded door, and there are single ground and first-floor windows to the right, the ground-floor window having a slatted shutter and the first-floor window being plain-glazed.

The roof has eight bays with simple, roughly-scantled, pegged collar trusses, laid-on purlins, and an original ridge. The floor level of the four western bays is slightly raised, and a later partition made of three-quarter rubble walls divides bay 7. Scratch-graffiti and the date 1719 are inscribed on the truss dividing bays 3 and 4. Evidence of blocked windows and entrances can be seen on the south wall. A small lateral fireplace, featuring a reused cyclopean door-head as a lintel, is located at ground level, and on the north wall is the waled-up primary lateral chimney of the former hall, along with a large flat oak bressummer, dressed stone reveals and a waled-up entrance, possibly leading to a former mural stair. A stopped-chamfered ceiling beam dividing bays 4 and 5 survives, while the rest have been sawn off at the wall, though the stops are mostly still visible. Some lime-hair plaster and colour-washes remain on the walls.

In the adjoining range, a large double fireplace has deep stone lintels, but a modern ceiling has been installed.