Cowhouse and Cottage Complex at Gardd-Llygaid-y-Dydd

Small group of adjoining agricultural and domestic blocks around a primary byre and forming a rough F-plan. Rubble construction, the byre section with boulder foundations and with kneelered, slate roofs; rubble gable parapet to the latter's NW gable. The primary entrance is in the long SE side, facing the old house; this has a modern boarded door and slatestone lintel. To the L of the entrance is some early scratch graffiti, including the date 1723 and the name Owen Hughes. The block's L gable has a C19 nine-pane sash window to the ground floor and a similar window to an upper loft. The opposing gable end has two small outer lights with plain glazing and deep inward splays.

The domestic section faces NW and occupies the C19 addition and the byre addition, thereby forming an L-shaped block. This has squat end chimneys and modern 8-pane casements, including a gabled dormer to the upper floor of the C19 part, with a part-glazed door. The brewhouse section also has a squat gable end chimney.

The primary section has an old ladder giving access to a first floor sleeping loft. The roof is of 2 bays with a collar truss (the collar removed) with some vertical boarding underneath the principals, all limed. In the far bay is a plain built-in bedstead, probably of the first-half C19, with cord stringing.