Stable courtyard at Treberfydd

This is a four-sided stable courtyard constructed in the Gothic Revival style. It dates from the 19th century, specifically 1852, and is built of coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. The roof is of plain tiles with decorative terracotta ridge tiles, ashlar copings, and gable finials. The two-storey entrance tower features a wide, moulded, pointed arch flanked by two buttresses with offsets. A cross window sits on the first floor, above a moulded string course that incorporates grotesque corbels with gargoyles at the corners. The tower is embattled, stepping up to the right to accommodate the staircase. An adjoining wall with a pointed arched doorway connects to the gable end of the courtyard range. The tower features wide double doors with vertical panelling and heavy studs, and a similar chamfered arch leads into the courtyard. The porch ceiling is of chamfered and stopped spine beams with close-set joists on heavy corbels, and steps give access to the tower interior through a Tudor-arched doorway.

To the right of the entrance tower is the stable range. The outer facing gable end has two first-floor lights and a glazed arrow loop above. Inside the courtyard, the range to the right has three bays with deeply overhanging eaves between gabled dormers featuring moulded copings, finials, chamfered mullioned windows (shuttered to the centre), and an alteration to the left. Three wide, Tudor-arched, chamfered doorways are on the ground floor, two with original boarded doors, studs, and strap hinges. Mullioned windows or single lights with chamfered surrounds are also present, with decorative stone ventilators to the roof.

A similar rear entrance, set in cross gables, is opposite, with a narrower footpath arch to the left, surmounted by a square dovecote. The dovecote has eight niches on each side and an overhanging pyramidal roof with a weathervane and the date 1852. Within the archway to the right is the entrance to a saddlery cottage. Adjacent to the left is a four-bay carriage house range with wide, four-centred arches and double boarded doors with deep hinges and studs. The rear elevation of this range has dormers and, to the left, the main entrance to the saddlery cottage with a very deep, cross-gabled roof, mullioned windows, a chamfered Tudor-arched doorway, and a tall, triple stack. A cross-gabled entrance bay has a gateway with boarded ledged and studded double doors, a two-light window above, and a small pointed arched pedestrian doorway to the right.

The rear of the stable range, overlooking the lake, has a cross gable to the right with altered windows and cross windows to the left, separated by buttresses. The third side of the courtyard is a retaining wall for the garden, and the fourth is the rear wall to the service yard. The courtyard floor is of flags or stone setts, with a central trough made of four stone slabs and an iron pump, positioned over a well below. The stable range to the right has been converted to living accommodation, while the carriage houses retain their original flagged floors. This complex exhibits group value.