Range with Bellcote at Cilwendeg Farm

This is an extensive range of farm buildings dating to the 1830s, situated uphill and constructed alongside a Counting House and other structures. The complex features a prominent five-bay, gabled centre range with a bellcote, flanked by two lofted wings. A range connecting the centre and Counting House has a cambered ground floor arch on its left end, partially infilled, leading to a large projecting gabled wing with a door set within a side-angle and two ground floor windows with timber lintels. A section of this wing’s northern gable is obscured by a 20th-century blockwork lean-to. The wing’s interior features a ground floor door and a cambered arched window on each floor to its right. It incorporates a single, long, 11-bay roof with collar trusses, a second collar, and stapled fixings, including a fireplace on the loft’s northern end wall.

The rear of the building is a six-bay, two-storey structure with first-floor cambered-headed, boarded windows and a loading door in the second bay, incorporating cut-stone voussoirs and keystones. The ground floor has been altered with a broad arch on the left against the centre block, followed by a 20th-century broad opening and three doors with Cilgerran stone voussoirs and keystones, infilled with 20th-century windows, with loops between and a door to the right. Detail suggests this range was built later than both the centre range and the Counting House.

The centre range, partially obscured by the lean-to, has cut-stone voussoirs to its cambered openings. Doors with blank windows above are situated to the left and right, while the centre features a large gable with a Cilgerran stone arched bellcote, displaying convex curves and a ball finial. The first floor has an arched loading door centrally positioned, flanked by boarded windows, all with stone voussoirs, and the door features a vertical-bar fanlight. The ground floor centre door is complemented by a traceried overlight and 16-pane sash windows on either side. The detailing is similar to that found in the stable range added to the rear barn. The rear wall was originally gabled but has since been partially demolished, now supported by a steel beam carrying the roof, and the interior was lofted, with stapled collar trusses.

A downhill range shows indications of an earlier building through blocked openings. It features four loft windows with cambered heads, a broad entry, a window, a door, and another window below. The door with its overlight opens into a stable, and the broad entry likely formed part of a former through passage. The stable originally comprised six stalls with timber arcading over posts; three survive. The northeastern end wall has a loft window and two 16-pane ground floor windows.

A rear lean-to addition, initially with a different roof pitch and later altered to cover, stretches three-plus-one bays, with a straight joint indicating the end bay, which houses a loft stair on the southern side, was constructed first. It incorporates cambered-headed windows with cut-stone voussoirs, three above and two below, with a broader central window and a similarly-headed door. A passage within provides access to the stable, and the upper floor extends across the full width, its roof rebuilt to cover the rear addition. A section to the right has a door to a through passage below, a window above, and external stairs on the right, all displaying similar cut-stone voussoirs. The condition of the building was poor in 1994.