Tredefaid

Tredefaid is a 17th to 18th century farmhouse, originally a gentry house associated with the Lewes family in the early 18th century and later with the Bowen family in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The farmhouse is constructed of roughcast and rubble stone with slate roofs, and has 20th-century brick stacks. It is arranged as a two-storey, L-shaped building.

The east front, facing the garden, is roughcast and incorporates older sections distinguishable by a higher roofline and a stack at the right end. There is an outshut with a 20th-century window and a casement pair. The later left-hand section features a projecting half-hipped porch, with a 20th-century door and window above, a French window to the left, and a 12-pane sash window. An end stack is visible on the south wall.

The north end has small windows in the outshut end and a slate-hung window and a 12-pane window in the main gable. A chimney on the west cross-gable has been removed. The NW rear wing has a stack at the west end and a 12-pane window on the first floor. A lean-to on the north side, formerly with a parallel roof, has two north-facing windows over four small entries that were used for geese. The south side has a large 20th-century window and a door below, with a 12-pane sash window above and a concrete lintel. The rear of the SE wing has a door and a small window below, and two 12-pane sash windows above, also with concrete lintels.

The northeast section, dating from the early to mid-17th century, contains a large chimney backing onto the present entry passage, possibly indicating a former end-entry house. Entries are located to the right and left of the chimney, the right-hand entry showing evidence of a former partition in the lintel. The chimney’s southwest corner is rounded. A ground-floor room in the northeast section has three heavy beams and scribed joists; the fireplace beam has been cut through. The first floor features a fireplace with a timber lintel resting on oak corbels, possibly of 17th-century origin. There are two heavy cross beams, one carried on a chamfered lintel into the outshut, which retains two large oak principal rafters. The southeast corner contains a winding stone staircase to the attic, which may have originally continued down to the ground floor. The attic has two trusses: one with a cone shape, mortices for a collar, and curved feet, and one that is plain. The SE wing is likely to be from the late 17th century, incorporating the cross passage and the south room.

Until 1966, a staircase dating from 1698 existed in the passage, and fragments were later reused as a landing rail, including turned balusters, a moulded rail, and a 1698 date inscribed on the underside. The south room has heavy chamfered beams and numbered floor joists. From the landing, two doorways lead to upper rooms, one with an 8-panel door in a 17th-century style and dated 'DBE 1780’, referencing David and Elizabeth Bowen. There are three heavy beams, one over the door partition, which is chamfered. The roof features pine trusses from the late 18th or early 19th century with bolted staples to the collars. The NW rear wing incorporates three heavy beams to the kitchen, with one beam in the east wall cut through, and a large fireplace at the west end.