Ty Fry Farmhouse

Ty Fry Farmhouse is an 18th century or earlier farmhouse with an adjoining former kitchen range and an attached cartshed and granary. The two-storey farmhouse is oriented east to west. It has a gabled slate roof, previously thatched, and three ashlar chimney stacks – two at the gables and one axial. The front (south) elevation is rendered with roughcast and has two window bays on the ground floor and four above, although the windows have been replaced in the mid-19th century. The first-floor windows are timber casements of various glazing patterns. A gabled porch shelters the central doorway, which has a six-panelled door with glazed upper panels. Four-pane sash windows with horns flank the door, and a window near the east end is now blocked.

A single-storey former kitchen range is located at the west end of the main house, aligned north to south, with a gabled slate roof and whitewashed rubble walls. A timber casement window is present on the east elevation, and a gable chimney is on the south end. This kitchen range is now linked to the farmhouse by a small flat-roofed extension. The west gable of the farmhouse is slate-hung and has a small casement window at first floor level, set above the roofline of the attached cartshed and granary. The rear (roadside) elevation is whitewashed rubble and remains well-preserved.

A projecting single-storey scullery/dairy outshut is positioned at the far west end, featuring a catslide slate roof. A central one-and-a-half storey stair outshut is set behind the scullery. The far east bay is two storeys and set behind the stair outshut. The scullery and stair outshut have a single casement window each, and the third bay to the east has two four-pane and one eight-pane windows, two at ground floor and one at first floor. The east gable is unlit.

The attached cartshed and granary are located at the west gable end, exploiting the change in level between the front and rear elevations. It stands two storeys high on the north elevation and one storey high on the south. It has whitewashed rubble walls and a small stone slate roof on the north slope, with a partial reslation of Welsh slate on the south. The front elevation includes a door opening and window openings. The roadside elevation features three shallow arched cartshed openings with stone piers between, now fitted with later boarded doors, and two square granary openings above, one louvred and one boarded.

The dairy/scullery at the northwest end retains slate shelves and stone slab workbenches on the walls, as well as meat hooks fixed to the ceiling joists. A cellar, located beneath the scullery, contains a curious pair of stone stumps approximately 1.5 metres apart, allegedly used for mounting barrels. A timber winding stair is within the outshut, and the parlour at the eastern end has simple late 18th or early 19th century plain panel and stile panelling on the east wall, with a pair of large cupboards flanking the fireplace, which has since been replaced. The former detached kitchen continues in use as a kitchen, with a large blocked-up oven on the east wall and a later 19th century range.