Llandefaelog-tre'r-graig

Llandefaelog-tre'r-graig is a grade II* listed building comprising two joined houses constructed of whitewashed rubble stone.

The older southeastern house is a two-storey building with a three-window front elevation. It has corrugated iron roofs and no end chimneys; all chimneys are positioned on the rear wall. The first floor windows feature stone hoodmoulds, with a longer four-pane sash to the left and two wider six-pane sashes to the right, all dating to the 19th century. The ground floor on the left has a hoodmould above a broad six-pane sash. The centre doorway is square-headed with a ten-pane overlight and is sheltered by a 19th-century gabled slate canopy supported on two thin iron posts. A small 20th-century window is positioned to the right. Marks of relieving arches are visible over the left window and to the right of the porch, with stone sills throughout.

The right end elevation features hoodmoulds to the attic and first floor centre windows, with a small square attic window without a sill and a four-pane first floor sash below. The ground floor has a six-pane sash with a timber lintel positioned to the right, and a relieving arch spans a blocked opening to the centre left.

The left end wall displays a hoodmould over a centre ground floor 18th-century oak two-light window; the hoodmould indicates the original window was broader. A relieving arch sits above this. A flat dripstone is positioned over a first floor casement, with another above a blocked attic window. A straight joint marks where the added southwestern rear wing connects.

The large southwestern rear wing has stone corniced stacks: one on the ridge at the rear of the main range and another on the western end. The southern side has a blocked first floor window to the left, a long four-pane window to the right, and a long ground floor window to the centre left with a timber lintel. The western end wall displays a square external chimney breast flanked by attic windows, with a broad ground floor door to the left.

A rear centre stair gable is set back from the southwestern wing but projects forward of the rear wall. Its windows are hoodmoulded at each floor, positioned at intermediate levels: a blank square attic window, a square second floor window, and a triple casement to the first floor with a relieving arch over the hoodmould. A 20th-century lean-to at ground floor level obscures a door to the right. On the left back wall of the main house stands a massive pair of wall-face chimneys; the right one, positioned in the angle to the stair gable, is corbelled at eaves level and has a string course beneath a tall corniced stack. The left chimney lacks corbels but has a string course at the same level, with a diagonally-set tall square shaft touching the other shaft. A narrow space between the rear left corner of the 17th-century range and the front left of the 18th-century house is filled by a slated lean-to against the side of the stair gable, providing access between the two houses.

The 18th-century house features a slate eaves roof and stone end stacks. It is a two-storey structure with a five-bay eastern front, whose windows are twelve-pane horned sashes except for the ground floor left, which has two tripartite four-eight-four-pane sashes with stone voussoirs. A centre part-glazed door with a three-pane overlight sits within a 19th-century gabled porch supported on two thin iron columns. The northern end wall has a door to the right, a stone dripcourse, and a loft light above. The rear features a projecting stair wing to the left of centre and a 19th-century gabled dormer on the eaves either side. The western end has a small single light in the gable and an 18th-century two-light timber window at mid-height to the right, with a dripstone. The southern end gable has two small loft lights and a small first floor window.

Interior of the Older House

The older house contains a through passage with the principal room to the right and an eastern room axially divided into dairy and scullery rooms. A moulded arch appears on the back of the front door, and the hall is stone-flagged. The right room and hall passage have rustic 17th-century plaster ceilings. The right room has two beams with plaster decoration in three strips; the outer strips feature an oval centre panel with a four-petal flower and two plant motifs (small-leaved, resembling mistletoe), one on each side. The centre strip has similar plant forms but a centre wreath border to a circle. The room entry is in the corner from the hall through a 19th-century four-panel door, with a modernised fireplace on the back wall. A larger beam spans the partition to the hall, which has a similar plaster ceiling with two bordered squares containing circular wreaths and two plant forms. Another beam spans the left partition.

A plank door provides access to the left stone-flagged room, which has two massive whitewashed beams and dairying slate slabs around its perimeter, with an axial partition to the rear room. The rear room contains the ends of the same beams, featuring run-out stops to their chamfers, and is stone-flagged. The end-wall window is split by the partition, but retains remains of an 18th-century fielded panelled reveal.

At the end of the hall is an arched doorway to the right leading to a straight flight of enclosed stairs. The oak stairs are broad, running back up parallel to the hall. The first floor was not inspected but contains chamfered beams. The rear southwestern wing has a very large fireplace in its ground floor room.