Old House at Middle Gaer

The Old House at Middle Gaer is a two-and-a-half storey building, originally constructed as a house and later converted for farm use. It is built of rubble stone and features putlog holes, dressed quoins, and freestone dressings around its openings. The roof is made of corrugated iron.

On the north wall facing the road, there is a cross-passage doorway that is offset to the right and has a stop-chamfered Tudor head. To the left of this doorway is a former two-light hall window with arched heads, which has been converted into a doorway, reusing the original sill as a threshold. At the left end of the wall, there is a small window with a dressed surround and original iron bars. In the upper storey, there is a small window with a dressed surround to the left and a loft opening under a timber lintel to the right. The right gable end features a corbelled first-floor stack that has been cut down below the apex. To the left of this stack is a small mid-16th century window with a chamfered surround, and an attic window that was inserted in the late 16th century, which has a timber lintel and dripstone.

The rear elevation has a Tudor-headed cross-passage doorway that is offset to the left. Immediately to the left of this doorway is a similar doorway that has been blocked. To the right of the centre is an enlarged doorway, and at the right end, there is a small 16th century window with a dressed and chamfered lintel. In the upper storey, there are two large 18th century openings with timber lintels. The left gable end has a small attic window added in the late 16th century, which also has a timber lintel and dripstone, and stepped down beyond this is a later rubble stone barn.

Internally, the hall and inner room are now undivided, as are the cross passage and outer room. The hall fireplace features a timber lintel. At the upper end, the first and attic floors are supported on corbels in the dividing wall. The interior is noted to have once contained wall paintings depicting stylised foliage and a man wearing a ruff in an Elizabethan style. The roof structure includes tie beams and cambered collar beams.