Cyfnant Uchaf and Barn

Cyfnant Uchaf is a house and barn forming a single range, with the barn situated downhill from the house. The house is constructed of rubble stone with a slate roof, and has some brick facing on its rear, south side. The barn is built of red brick, also with a slate roof.

The house is divided into two sections running east to west above the barn. The original section appears to be contemporary with the barn, and was extended to the west, with an added 19th-century south wing. The north side of the house is of rubble stone. The original left section has a brick ridge stack and a central outshut containing a rear wall staircase, featuring a triple casement window with leaded lights. There is a blank wall to the left of the outshut, and a four-window range of four-pane sash windows to the right, with the upper sashes set under the eaves. An added upper range, also of rubble stone, has a door to the left, followed by a matching four-window range of four-pane sashes. Brick, cambered heads are above the door and ground floor sashes on each side, presumably added when the addition was made. The right end of the house is a former outbuilding with a large door under the eaves, accessible from ground level due to the slope. There is a stone stack and a lean-to at the right end wall.

The south side of the house includes an 18th-century painted brick wall to the right, which continues with the barn; a rubble plinth matches that on the barn’s south front. There are two four-pane sashes under the eaves, and two cambered-headed triple casement windows below, the left one further left than the sash above. The 19th-century south wing has a brick stack at its south end. The east side of the wing has a door in the angle to the right, paired with two narrow sashes on each floor to the left. The windowless south end and west rear walls are notable. To the left of the wing, the south side of the main house steps back, likely at the original west end, followed by a door and a one-window range of addition, and a window and door in the south end of a gable-end lean-to.

The barn has a slightly lower roofline with red brick laid in a garden wall bond. The north front features a large, cambered-arched central entry, with the arch formed from a single ring of bricks; the jambs include some sandstone blocks, the top impost angled, possibly for arch stones that have been removed, now infilled with stone and containing an inserted stable door. There are two loops at the upper level to the left, over one ledged door at the extreme left. To the right of the centre is a square loft opening under the eaves, and a ledged door further right. The south side also has a large arched central doorway, now infilled, but with a continuous rubble plinth that appears original, suggesting it was not a throughway for wagons. There are two loops to the left of the door at mid height, and two at the upper level to the right.

Inside the house, the upper end ground floor room has two heavy, beamed and joisted ceilings, and the main fireplace is infilled on one side. Off the parlour, in the lower end, are stairs within the outshut, running parallel to the north wall.

The barn's roof is three-bay and features tie-beam trusses with queen struts. One tie-beam is dated TH 1781. The interior walls are brick, with low walls flanking the through passage. Internal shafting is connected to a former water-wheel.