Maesyfed

Maesyfed is a complex of buildings dating back to the 18th century, enlarged and altered over subsequent centuries, and originally serving as a general store and associated premises. The main house is a late 18th-century, two-unit, timber-framed building. It initially featured a large rubble stone end stack, with an open fireplace carrying a timber lintel, a stone-lined bread oven, and a partly rebuilt inglenook seat. Inside, the original structure has exposed scroll-stopped beams and a modern staircase. An early 19th-century rubble stone wing adjoins the timber-frame structure, including an axial beam with step stops and a rubble fireplace with a brick cambered lintel.

A former shop, likely remodelled in 1805, retains a boarded floor and board-lined walls, alongside U-plan counters—some early examples in oak, and later ones in panelled deal with drawers. The shop still has an incomplete but substantial survival of floor-to-ceiling open shelving and drawer runs, supported by two cast-iron pillars with boxed beams. Original six-panel doors provide rear access to a lean-to that was formerly used for bakery storage, with original shelving and a boarded ceiling. A boarded door marked "Gentlemen Only" leads to storerooms with a gentlemen’s outfitters on the first floor. The shop also includes a staircase with a scroll-ended handrail and quality shop fittings, including a cast-iron fireplace and panelled overmantel. Connected to the shop is a separate ironing room set above the laundry, described as a single large room with matchboarded walls and large multi-pane windows with chamfered frames. First-floor rooms in the house feature six-panel doors and cast-iron fireplaces.

The complex includes a late 19th-century two-storey domestic range in red brick with twin gables and a gabled porch, with a slate roof and brick end stack. A modern window with a fanlight head has replaced the original door. Elsewhere, a rubbled stone wing is rendered with studwork, brick end stack, a glazed door, and an upper window sash with horns. A shop front elevation is also in rendered studwork with a raised roofline and a hipped slate roof, featuring a central double door with a large overlight, and ground floor and upper windows with large multi-pane lights. A mid-19th century two-storey gable wing adjoins to the right, originally used as a storeroom and outfitters, with decorative bargeboards, a large multi-pane upper window, and double boarded doors. A later 19th-century two-storey laundry range is constructed in brick with a brick stack and slate roof. The rear elevations demonstrate lean-to additions in rubble stone and brick. The original house's walls are a mix of stud and weatherboards, and a stud extension provides light for a tailor’s workroom with large multi-pane windows.

A mid-19th-century outbuilding, known as The Tea House, was originally constructed as a warehouse and coach house serving the general stores. It is built of painted rubble stone with a tin roof, decorative bargeboards and a "Gothic" window with an ashlar arched head in the east gable. A large double door is located below, and another at the west end. The interior is plastered throughout and features exposed beams and joists, a plain staircase, and a later 19th-century stud and weatherboarded former seed merchant’s premises at the west end.