U-Plan Complex at Gellifaharen

The U-Plan Complex at Gellifaharen is a model farm complex of unusually large scale, constructed from rubble stone with yellow brick dressings and slate roofs. The building is roughly U-shaped and consists of two and one storeys.

The southern range features a two-storey east block with two windows and a brick stack on the west side. It has camber-headed openings with slate sills and yellow brick surrounds. The large nine-pane windows include two above, with a date plaque between them, one below to the left, and a door with an overlight below. The east end has a loading door and dove-holes in the gable.

The long range running west has a full-height basement at the west end due to the slope of the land. It has an even roof line that is hipped at the southwest angle, with a battered corner at the basement. There are four upper windows, with the left two having lower sills, above a sequence of door-window-window-door, all with altered flat heads and a dropped left door. This is followed by a broad three-bay section featuring two large twelve-pane upper windows flanking a centrally located mid-height broad segmental-arched loading door, which is positioned over a basement window-door-window-window and a cart entry, all closely spaced and featuring yellow brick cambered heads.

The tall west wall has a battered base and a four-window range set to the left, with six-pane windows above and nine-pane windows below. The north end gable includes ground floor access to a cattle shed with an altered iron lintel and a loading door above. In the angle and parallel to the west range are open cattle stalls with lower gables, arranged in pairs and aligned with the northeast gable. Each gable has a nine-pane window above an enlarged entry with an iron lintel, and paired windows, one of which is blocked, between the entries. The two parallel sheds are divided internally by cast-iron columns, and the east wall of the eastern shed features doors and nine-pane windows arranged in a door-window-window-door-window format, with a large sliding door at the left end. The rear wall of the southern range has windows and an entry to the first floor level, as well as ground level access on this side.

From the southeast angle, a low range of sheds extends eastward, featuring four broad full-height openings with timber lintels, each accompanied by a door to the left. The doors have stone voussoirs, which may indicate an earlier date. There is also a tall open-fronted range at the north end.