Garth Maelan

Garth Maelan is a two-and-a-half-story, three-window house dating from the 18th century, with a rear range added slightly later. The house is constructed of rubble masonry and has a steeply pitched slate roof with raking gable copings to the right and modern bargeboards to the left. A cavetto eaves cornice runs along the roofline. A 19th-century stone stack is located at the right end, and there are five hipped stone dormers, each containing a small 12-pane sash window. A tripartite sash window is centrally positioned on the first floor, featuring a 12-pane sash flanked by four-pane sidelights, all beneath a stone lintel, with an empty tablet recess above. Modern, small-paned windows with stone lintels are on either side, suggesting the presence of much larger windows originally, possibly dating from the medieval period. A continuous sill band runs across the front. A 19th-century central gabled stone porch, with a slate roof and close verges, shelters a modern glazed door, accompanied by a Victorian sash window to the right. Modern cross windows are set into the southwest end elevation, also with stone lintels.

The two-and-a-half-story rear range abuts the central staircase bay and the right-hand stack. Constructed of rubble masonry, it also features a steeply pitched slate roof, raking gable copings, a square stone stack with water tabling, and a later, externally added brick flue. The southwest side of the rear range features two stone dormers, a small 12-pane sash window to the right, and a modern window to the left. The first floor has a modern cross window (formerly a doorway) and a two-light casement to the right, with similar casements on the ground floor, both under stone lintels. Small windows are set into the rear wall of the main house alongside the stack, blocked on the ground floor. A square stone stack is set on a slate-hung gablet with copings. The gabled, two-story central staircase bay has close verges and 12-pane sash windows. An advanced lateral stack to the left features a square stack on a base, with a slated gablet and copings. A later lean-to has been added at ground floor level.

Adjacent to the northeast of the main house is a single-story, lofted outhouse, likely dating from the 18th century or earlier. Constructed of rubble masonry with a steeply pitched roof, it has two small skylights to the front, plain eaves, and close verges. A square stone end stack with water tabling is present. A broad doorway to the left has a stone lintel and a 19th-century four-panel door, with glazed upper portions. A small window to the right has a modern frame and stone lintel. A raking dormer to the rear houses an external loft doorway and a plank door. External stone stairs lead up to the loft, and there are two small windows on the ground floor, with modern frames.

Inside, the hallway features early 18th-century paired semicircular arches with central and flanking fluted pilasters rising to a multiple cornice projected over the pilasters. A four-panel door leads to the cellar. The right-hand arch gives access to a fine, early 18th-century staircase with turned balusters, square newels, and a contemporary dog-gate to the first landing. Iron rods are incorporated into the timber stiles. The original two-folded panel door leads into the parlour, which retains complete early 18th-century panelling, a moulded cornice over tall panels with moulded dado over squat bottom panels, fielded panels, moulded frames, and a bolection moulded door architrave. Another principal ground floor room contains a massive fireplace, possibly from the 16th century, with a dressed stone voussoir depressed arch. Transverse ceiling beams are also present. The outhouse retains an inglenook with a timber bressumer and transverse ceiling beams.