Ty Fanner

Ty Fanner is a T-plan farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with origins likely in the mid-16th century. It is constructed of rubble with a new slate roof, with a rendered and heavily battered west gable. A tiered chimney stack is centrally positioned on the west wing, and there are plain end stacks to the west and south gables.

The main, east-facing front looks towards the abbey church, and features a large entrance to the left with a modern, open, slate-roofed porch. The entrance door itself is late 17th century, wide, ribbed, and panelled, set within an earlier, probably mid-16th century, doorcase with broach-stopped and pegged detail. Above the door are two plain, square lights. To the right of the entrance are two late 17th century leaded wooden cross-windows with ovolo-moulded transomes and frames, with a modern buttress between them and a further buttress towards the far right. Above these windows are two plain-gabled rubble dormers, containing out-of-character modern two-light windows and modern bargeboards.

The south side has an entrance to the recessed parlour wing, with a modern half-open porch, and flanked by modern twelve-pane recessed sash windows. Further modern windows are present on the advanced hall (south) gable, featuring pointed relieving arches and rubble voussoirs. The north side has a blocked primary entrance to the left of the hall gable, with modern windows to both ground and first floors. Two twelve-pane sashes, similar to those on the south side, are located to the recessed right-hand section, with a further plain modern window to the left and a modern catslide dormer above. Further modern windows are on the west gable.

Inside the hall, a partition marks the former location of the passage screen. A 17th century external studded door has been incorporated into a section of post-and-panel screen in the west wall. A plain staircase from around 1900 has a balustraded upper flight and landing, re-using eight late 17th century turned balusters from the former hall stair. The hall's roof is supported by five arched-braced collar trusses, including end trusses. The central truss has a roll flanked by two hollow mouldings and cusped, trefoil decoration; the remaining trusses have quarter-round mouldings. A two-bay arched-braced collar truss roof is found in the later upper solar, with trenched purlins and windbraces. The truss apex has a cusped design. The former parlour, now a kitchen, has a stopped-chamfered ceiling, and features a large fireplace with a bressummer that is partially obscured.