Trefeca College Farmhouse (Trefeca Isaf)

Large farmhouse of the late C16, much altered in the mid C18. Rubble sandstone, with slate roofs, hipped at the S end. Two storeys, with a 2-storey and attic cross wing at the N end, and a matching 2-storey and attic porch set in the angle. Large C18 wing to the rear. The porch has an open-fronted moulded Tudor arch, with a door into the cross wing, and the main door to the house, counter-boarded and studded within a bracket-moulded stone doorcase. Porch altered in C18 when the small window to the S blocked and replaced by a seated alcove, and the ceiling given a plaster dome. Stone tiled floor. Inset above the door, a sandstone slab with moulded margin and 4 angels displaying shields in the four quadrants of a circle. Recorded as having the inscribed date 1576. The first floor chamber has a C20 two-light window, and a lunette in the gable.

The N cross wing, probably originally parlour with kitchen to rear, has C20 transomed timber windows, and a lunette window in the gable, matching that of the porch. A stone stack in the front corner of the room projects slightly, making the gable off-centre. The main range is stuccoed, formerly with Gothick ogee headed windows, now with 4-light C19 sashes, although two have been replaced with 3-light ogee-headed windows with intersecting tracery reflecting the original C18 form. A large forced vehicle opening to the former hall on the ground floor of the end bay. The end elevation has similar replica windows. To the rear, the cross-passage door, now a C20 replacement, and immediately N, a low round-headed door with giant rounded lintel stones. Above the door, a 3 x 5 light high C17 window. Against the rear wing, triple ogee window, and a single one above, with the intersecting glazing bars replaced. A similar triple window survives further S beyond the rear wing. Rear service wing, of 1768-72, has 5 and 6-light reset transomed windows, mostly blocked.

Cross passage from front door, with hall, later the college Chapel, beyond screen to the left, and parlours to right. Stack on rear wall, with fireplace and oven to kitchen in rear wing. Stair to upper floor. Cellar under front parlour.