One of Four Linked Outbuildings forming Courtyard at Llanfair

These four linked outbuildings form a courtyard at Llanfair, part of a larger complex of farm buildings and estate houses built for the Thomas family. The buildings largely date to the 18th and 19th centuries, with inscriptions indicating 1797 and 1847. They are constructed of rubble stone with slate roofs, and are mostly two storeys high.

The east and north ranges have an even roofline, with the east range’s roof hipped at the outer northeast angle, although the interior of the east range is now open to the roof. The east range features camber-headed doors and small windows, all with stone voussoirs, a loading door towards the south end, and a concrete block lean-to against the centre. An arched cartshed entry is situated at the north end. The north range has two similar cart entries with windows above, followed by a tall barn entry with a cambered arch, and then four well-spaced bays with alternate doors and windows below, and three windows and a loading door above. The barn has a nine-bay collar truss roof, lofted for four bays. The roofs are similar throughout the north and east ranges, which suggests they were built together around 1847.

The west range, also seemingly dating to the mid-19th century, incorporates a lower two-storey outbuilding at the northwest corner, linked to a larger block of two-storey estate housing. The outbuildings contain four bays of pigsties, an enclosed section, and a cartshed arch in the northwest angle. The house range appears to have originally comprised three two-window houses, featuring close-spaced arched windows and doors with ashlar voussoirs. One door has been converted into a window. Two broader bays are located to the left, with arched cart entries below and similar windows above; the cart entries are now glazed. The windows are small-paned narrow casements with single-pane fanlights above, and there is one stone stack.

Adjoining the south side is a gabled stone gateway with dove holes, a large ashlar arch, and wrought iron gates, aligned with a similar entrance gateway at the southeast angle of the yard.

The single-storey south range shows evidence of two periods of building. The upper section, a series of six stone voussoir arches, has a straight joint at the west end, and features older, pegged collar trusses. Two of the arches have been blocked. Attached to the southeast is a gabled entry to the courtyard, arched with a coped gable and a square stone stack on each side. Original gates are now preserved on the end wall of the east range. The south range continues westward with an arched window with a brick arch, a tall arched door, an arched cart entry — all with stone voussoirs — and two small doors. The range originally served as a stable, loose-box, coach-house, and tack-room.