Middle Sylfaen Farmhouse

Middle Sylfaen Farmhouse is a timber-framed building with some stonework and a slate-covered roof. It has been extended on the right side by a 20th-century lean-to that provides service rooms. The original layout features a storeyed porch with a lobby entry leading to the main living room on the right and a parlour on the left, with an additional room in a gabled wing behind the large central stack. Later additions include more rooms on either side of the rear wing.

The farmhouse exhibits square panel framing, with the ground floor replaced by brick. The upper floor jetties out and consists of three panels high, with brick noggings. The porch retains its original boarded door and features a turned baluster upper stage on three sides. The upper chamber jetties on moulded bressumers supported by shaped brackets, with the panels decorated with stilted trefoils. The roof gable also jetties, with its bressumer displaying mouldings at the ends and leaf-shaped struts supporting the collar. A date of 1577, of uncertain significance, is inscribed in recent plaster in the gable. The bargeboards have been replaced, and modern paned timber windows have been installed. The left gable is slate-hung, while the eastern gable above the kitchen extension is roughcast over a slightly jettied gable. A central three-flue brick stack is present.

Inside, the rear wall of the living room, which has been opened to the 20th-century rear extension, is close studded. The original fireplace has been reduced in size, and the room is now ceiled. The parlour features a fine stone fireplace with canted sides and two chamfered cross beams with ogee stops. Tension braces are visible in the close studded rear wall. The entrance porch includes a single longitudinal chamfered beam and a blocked opening with a chamfered lintel in the stone stack, suggesting that the entrance hall may have originally served as a heated reception room. The roof structure consists of two tiers of purlins.