Outbuildings at Pontfaen

The outbuildings at Pontfaen comprise a range of structures, built of rubble stone with cut sandstone voussoirs and slate roofs, forming an L-plan layout. The western range has been restored and painted, incorporating a holiday house to the left, a workshop in the centre, and further accommodation to the right. The northern range, originally a cowshed, remains unrestored.

The western range’s left section is a three-bay coach house with three renewed double doors set beneath broad, elliptical-arched heads featuring cut-stone voussoirs and keystones. Above are two shuttered loft windows. The right-hand coach entry is slightly lower and lacks an arch ring. External stone steps lead to a loft door on the south end wall. Continuous walling connects to a lower stable range in the centre, which has a five-bay front. This front features a square window set high, mirrored by a window and door on either side; all are set within blind arched heads with cut-stone voussoirs. The window arches are semi-circular, while the door arches are more elliptical. The stable has renewed windows and doors, each with an overlight. Further stonework connects to a lower range to the right, which has a single window and a large, depressed-arched entry with a keystone and double doors. A small, blank window is located to the right. The roof has a short link spanning the full-height doorway to the cowshed, which runs at a right angle.

The cowshed range retains traces of whitewash and has a slate roof, half-hipped at the east end. A small, roofed passage connects the cowshed to the north end of the main range. The south front, facing the courtyard, has doors and windows with similar arched heads as the stable, with two round-arched windows alternating with two elliptical-arched doors. The doors are boarded, and the windows are of 20th-century manufacture. The sandstone voussoirs and keystones are unpainted. The east end, facing the road, has a 20th-century loft window with a stone voussoir-headed elliptical arch. The rear north side features two doors with stone voussoirs and two inserted windows.

A small outbuilding runs south along the roadside from the east end of the main range, partially enclosing a courtyard. The rear west side of the main range is largely windowless and steps up with the hill. Here, there’s a 20th-century brick-arched door at the extreme left, an opening with a timber lintel to the right, a blocked door with stone voussoirs leading to a lower building, and three 20th-century windows on the upper level.

The stable has a thin collar-rafter roof. The lower range features six pine collar trusses, while the range at a right angle contains twelve pine collar trusses.