Gilfach

Gilfach is a former L-shaped farmhouse, likely dating from the 18th century, comprising three units. The original layout incorporated a kitchen wing, a cider cellar, and a granary. The kitchen wing was added at a right angle to the central hall and inner room, which are separated by a cross passage from the parlour at the end of the range. The building is constructed of rendered rubble sandstone, with a reconstituted stone tile roof, dormers to both wings, and rendered ridge and end stacks.

The front facing the lane features two doors leading to separate cross passages, flanked by a stair tower with a shallow-pitched stone slate roof and a two-light window with a hood. A three-light window has remade moulded mullions and a stone hood. A renewed lean-to porch has been added. The left-hand kitchen unit has three original mullioned four-light windows, two to the ground floor and one to the first floor. The first-floor window is largely original, with diamond mullions in a plain wood frame. A wide, renewed plank door provides access. The gable end has two windows with hoods; the upper right window is original with diamond mullions and an intervening wood stanchion. The laneside façade, raised slightly, features a low, renewed mullioned kitchen window and first-floor windows with dormers and a doorway, all renewed. The parlour unit to the right has a six-light ground floor window with moulded mullions and a transom, a three-light window above with a moulded mullion, and a small single-light window above a renewed door to the cross passage. The gable end facing the lake has two eight/eight pane horned sash windows on each floor. A farmyard frontage displays replaced wooden mullioned windows and a porch.

Internally, the inner room features a plank and muntin screen with Tudor-arched doorways, with chamfered and stopped jambs, chamfered and stopped cross beams, and a chamfered and stopped former fireplace timber bressumer. The floor is flagged, with timber lintels over renewed mullioned windows, and stone shelves flank the fireplace. The hall contains a massive chamfered fireplace bressummer and jambs—also chamfered and stopped at base—and doorways to a cross passage. A second screen is present, along with a chamfered Tudor-arched doorway. A former visible cruck ghost is noted in this wall. A relocated door, seemingly original to the building, has a horizontal planked back. Reeded beams are also present. The parlour features windows with ovolo mouldings to the transoms and mullions, wooden sills, four reeded beams, original thick oak floorboards, and remnants of lath and plaster attached to the joists. A chimney bressummer and stone slabs are positioned by the fireplace. Stone stairs lead to the rear of the hall, where a cross slab roof is present. The roof structure includes A-frame trusses with three rows of purlins to the main unit. Upper floor beams are chamfered and stopped, with struts from original first-floor partitions. The kitchen wing has a wide open fireplace with a cobbled hearth, a wide timber bressummer, three baking ovens (two with metal doors), a boiler, and queen post roof trusses.