Cowhouse at Pen-hefyd Farm

A designed estate building of the type found in model farms. Lofted double-pile plan, range faced in rubble with hammer dressed quoins and similar window and door dressings. The building is distinctive for its parallel half-hipped slate roofs and thermal windows to the north and south ends; overhanging eaves swept out to outer edges. Another feature characteristic of this period of designed farm buildings is the rounded jambs to the doorways, to avoid injury to cattle passing in and out. The south end facing the farmyard has a central entrance onto the longditudinal passage whilst the north end close to the fields has two entrances, to extreme left and right, and a central window. Three-window side elevations with voussoirs to square-headed openings; the upper parts of the windows are slatted. The yard elevation has cart doors and two rooflights.

Whitewashed brick interior retains original plan designed for tethering cattle facing towards the central passage. Full width tie beams carry each pair of trusses of the simple 6-bay, purlined roof. The building has been converted into an estate workshop during the 1990s with some minor changes.