Farm Building at Twyn yr Hydd

This is a late Picturesque style farm building, likely dating to the late 18th or early 19th century. The building is asymmetrical, with a main east-west range and wings projecting to each end, and a smaller wing extending to the east. It is constructed from rough snecked masonry with quoins, and has red tiled roofs, some half-hipped, and a large stone ridge stack. The front faces south into a courtyard.

The left-hand gable end is two stories high. The gable is slightly recessed and faced with red brick, featuring a three-light casement window beneath a segmental head. A shallow, tiled lean-to sits below this, leading to full-width planked double doors. A stack rises from the ridge of this wing. The central main range is single-story with a loft. The ground floor is paved in blue brick and recessed below a projecting timber beam structure supported on brackets. A porch recess contains stable doors to the right, a planked door directly ahead, and a boarded door under a segmental head set back at an angle. The loft above the projecting beams is tile-hung and includes a gabled half-dormer with a planked door and louvred apex. The right-hand wing is single-story with a half-hipped roof, featuring a three-light multi-pane window with a segmental head of voussoirs. A lower range projects to the right, featuring full-height planked double doors and a vent in the east gable apex. A further bay added to the right is constructed of 20th-century brick on rubble stone under a corrugated steel roof, again with planked double doors.

The rear elevation shows the gabled bays of the two wings. The eaves of the main range project as a catslide roof, aligning the wall with the left wing. The right wing is advanced and includes a tall two-light window and a later 20th-century window, both with segmental heads of voussoirs. A small, boarded-up window sits below the eaves of the catslide section. The left wing has a three-light multi-pane window under a segmental head, with a vent in the gable apex framed in sandstone. The west end of the building is of snecked masonry with two small boarded lancets, now incorporated into a lean-to glasshouse. A brick plinth supports curved glazing bars with wide panes, and vertical glazing bars to the ends, with a late 20th-century door at the north end.

The right-hand wing contains a well-preserved stable with two stalls and a loose box, featuring wood planked partitions topped with iron openwork screens, round iron end posts with ball finials, herringbone brick floors and gullies, and some timber lining against the walls. The lower wing to the right was originally a cart-shed but is now used as a pig sty. A mid-20th-century garage sits further to the right. The left wing was originally used to accommodate the groom, though the fireplace on the first floor is said to no longer survive.