Farm Building to SE of Hendre Farmhouse

Large stone lofted cowhouse. Like the house and small barn, the building is built across the slope, giving an under-storey at the lower end. Local granite rubble, distinctively graduated in the gable end and with timber wall-plates exposed externally; Ffestiniog slate roof. Facing the yard, there is a door at the lower western end, giving access to the under-storey (perhaps originally a stable); Dated stone above the door, granite, with raised letters. Window aligned above. Most accommodation is at the upper level, approached via a flight of stone steps (modern replacements). A further door with flanking windows in upper bay. Windows are all wood mullioned and mostly of 3 lights, including a tier of 3 in the gable end. Most are renewed, but are based on an original surviving over the main doorway: this has timber diamond mullions; rough stone hood moulds to openings. Rougher rubble lean-to on south elevation is clearly a later addition: original purpose unclear, but with two doors in its long wall. Beyond this, two doors and a further window.

Divided into two sections, with single bay over basement roughly partitioned off from the longer remainder. This has heavy longitudinal beam (stop-chamfered at upper end at least) now supported on two brick piers. Slots cut into this beam suggest that it formerly supported a loft floor. Heavy tie-beam trusses with raking struts. In the lower section, paired longitudinal beams have stop chamfers, and the are ogee stops to the joists: this is an unusual degree of ornamentation, though perhaps consistent with the use of this section as a high-status stable.