Rhydlafr Farmhouse & The Old Byre

Rhydlafr Farmhouse and The Old Byre is a two-storey farmhouse built across a slope, featuring ramped lime-washed walls and a pitched slate roof without end chimneys. The building has modern cross-mullion timber windows with stone and slate sills. A part of a four-light stone mullioned window on the ground floor to the right is set into a wider opening under a stone lintel and is covered by lead sheeting. There is a solid pitched roof porch added to the left of the main house.

To the right, there is a lower two-storey extension, formerly the byre, which has a modern rubble-faced outside stair rising diagonally towards the main house. On the left, another two-storey, two-window extension features modern windows. The rear elevation retains a two-storey 17th-century wing with a full-height rubble chimney-stack attached at the outer corner, though it is not open internally. Other early features on the rear include an ogee-headed medieval lancet with cusping set into the upper floor.

Inside, the ground-floor hall runs to the right from the entrance and has early 17th-century chamfered beams with curved fillet stops. It features a lateral stone chimney-piece with double ovolo moulding and a masonry super-arch over the rectangular opening, which includes a bake-oven within the fireplace. The end (south) wall retains a pair of blind segmental masonry arches; the left-hand doorway formerly led into the byre, which retains a pointed dressed masonry arch on the reverse side. There is also said to be a further pointed masonry archway set into the rear wall of the byre extension.

The opposite (north) end wall of the hall has a small square opening below a partly blocked doorway with a voussoir head. The main roof of the house features 19th-century king-post construction but retains older structural timbers. The upper floor bedroom within the main south wall has a pointed and chamfered masonry archway leading towards the upper floor of the byre and also includes a single cusped stone lancet in the rear wall.