Farmhouse with attached Cruck Barn at Peniarth-uchaf

A modestly designed farmhouse built onto the east end of a very substantial cruck-framed barn of which four bays survive. The farmhouse stands forward, the barn adjoining its rear wing.

The farmhouse is of two storeys and two windows, in informally coursed stone, with slate roof and with end chimneys; central boarded door (large lintel above with stone face), small windows each side (upvc) in original openings; small through-eaves dormer windows aligned above. Upper small window and rooflight to rear. To the west side of the rear elevation is a large wing with gables facing north and east, the latter with a small window, and a modern single-storey lean-to rendered and slate-roofed annexe in the north-east corner.

The barn has stone gable walls; the front wall is clad in vertical timber boarding, the rear in corrugated steel sheeting. Slate roof. To the east of the east gable wall of the barn is a further, rebuilt, bay of the same height and depth as the barn and the same height as the rear wing of the house, with rendered walls, slate roof, modern door, small window and two rooflights to front, one rooflight to rear.

In the house, entered by the south door, there are adze-wrought boarded doors to the main rooms at left and right. Two beams in kitchen at rear with quadrant mouldings. In the bay to the rear of the rear extension are stubs of the barn purlins suggesting that this bay was originally part of the barn.

The barn is separately entered from the farmyard to its south. Three fine cruck couples of large scantling: that furthest from the house has butted blades and a collar beam; the middle couple has butted blades, and two collars linked by a central post; the couple nearest to the house has two collars and a lap-jointed tie with panel framing and marks of former infill. Two purlins each side.