Ty Hir

Ty Hir is a farmhouse and barn built in line, featuring a whitewashed roughcast exterior and a slate close-eaved roof. The farmhouse has roughcast end stacks, with the right end stack being external and the left end stack located at the join to the barn. It is two storeys high, with the upper storey likely raised. Each floor has two pairs of horizontal sliding casements; those on the upper floor are positioned under the eaves, while those below have cambered heads. The entrance is located at the left end of the house, aligned with the left stack, and features a 20th-century glazed door and porch. The right end wall of the house is windowless and has a battered chimney breast. The rear of the house includes an off-centre wing that ends in a large roughcast external stack, which is battered on the sides. This wing has one window on each floor to the left, near the join with the front range, and a long 20th-century window on the ground floor to the right. The rear of the wing features a broad dormer that likely dates from the mid-20th century. There is also a ground floor gabled projection to the left with an off-centre 20th-century glazed door, which abuts the rear wall of a lean-to outshut on the front range. The lean-to has a 20th-century window that illuminates a stone-vaulted chamber in the rear wing.

Adjacent to the farmhouse is the barn, which has a steeper roof pitch and lower eaves. It is constructed of rubble stone and features a stable-type door located centrally and to the left. The left wall retains its colourwashed roughcast finish, and the left end gable has stone coping.

The house has a two-unit plan and includes a timber-lintel fireplace on the left. The rear wing features stone voussoirs supporting the massive end chimney and contains a small plastered tunnel-vaulted chamber on the rear wall, the purpose of which is uncertain.

The barn boasts a 3-bay single purlin roof supported by two hewn timber tie-beam trusses, each with a pair of slightly curved diagonal struts extending from the centre. The threshing floor is flanked by the remains of timber storage bays.