Rhydlafr Farmhouse & The Old Byre

Two-storey three-window farmhouse built across the slope with ramped lime-washed walls and pitched slate roof without end chimneys. All modern cross-mullion, timber windows with stone and slate sills; part of a 4-light stone mullioned window to ground-floor right is set into a wider opening under a stone lintel and covered by lead sheeting. Solid pitched roof porch has been added towards the left of main house. Lower two-storey extension (formerly the byre) set back on right has modern (?) rubble-faced outside stair rising diagonally towards main house. Another two-storey two-window extension with modern windows to left. The rear elevation retains a two-storey C17 wing with full-height rubble chimney-stack attached at the outer corner but not open internally. Other early features on the rear include an ogee-headed medieval lancet with cusping set into upper floor.

Ground-floor hall runs to right from within the entrance and has early C17 chamfered beams with curved fillet stops and a lateral stone chimney-piece with double ovolo (recessed) moulding and masonry super-arch over the rectangular opening. There is a bake-oven within the fireplace. The end (S) 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 said to be a further pointed masonry archway set into the rear wall of the byre extension. The opposite (N) end wall of the hall retains a small square opening below a partly blocked doorway with voussoir head. The main roof of the house is of C19 king-post construction, but retains older structural timbers. The upper floor bedroom within the main S wall has a pointed and chamfered masonry archway leading towards upper floor of byre and also has a single cusped stone lancet in rear wall.