Old Farmhouse at Ty-brith

Rubble stonework, with a slate roof, corrugated iron on the rear and red clay ridge tiles. The upper E bay has a corrugated asbestos roof. Two doorways on the S side, one on the N, the added building has a boarded door and window opening.

The main open hall truss of the house is constructed with substantial raised crucks morticed for a deep cambered collar, with knee braces carrying ovolo mouldings on the lower arrises, extended on to the centre of the collar. Above, a remarkable king-post, with sunk ovolo mouldings on each face, is shouldered and shaped to take four mortices for braces to the upper part of the blades, and to the ridge; these two now missing. The blades are tenoned at the top into the king post, which is trenched to carry a square set ridge piece. Much evidence of smoke blackening. The total span is 4.75m, and the hall length 7.65m. The closed truss forming the partition to the lower bay has slightly curved and tapered blades set in the walls, with a cambered collar and king post, a shoulder is present on the hall side only, although it is not clear if it is applied. Two long curved braces from the blades descend to a raised sill, which also has a vertical stud to the collar. Small plates, pegged to the blades, are trenched on top for the wall plate on the stone walls. A subsidiary timber on top of the blades carries the lower tier of purlins, which are held in position by a substantial rectangular peg driven into the top face of the blade. The purlins do not seem to be in their original position although they are drilled for pegged rafters. The ridge over the lower bay is set diagonally. The slates have been torched.