Braich-melyn is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 4 November 1999. House, farm building.

Braich-melyn

WRENN ID
watchful-forge-cedar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Snowdonia National Park
Country
Wales
Date first listed
4 November 1999
Type
House, farm building
Source
Cadw listing

Description

The house is built of local rubble and whitewashed, the farm building in line of heavy stone and galetted, all under a continuous slate roof with a gable stack at the W end. The house part is of 3 bays, one storey and attic. Boarded door in a heavy chamfered frame, and 2-light 2-paned timber windows with wooden lintels, the door and windows renewed in the 1990s. The farm range consists of a 3-bay roof over a cowhouse, with a lean-to extension at the front, and a stable door to the cowhouse.

The house consists of a major living-kitchen at the W end with a large inglenook stack and stair at the side, a cross passage from the front door, and formerly 2 rooms at the E end, a buttery and small parlour. Original plank and muntin partition. Collar beam trusses carrying two tiers of purlins.

The interior of the cowhouse has a collar beam truss, some timbers re-used, carrying purlins. The roofing is of thick slate, oak pegged in graded courses.

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