Aberfan Fawr Farmhouse

This is an early 17th-century farmhouse that was enlarged in the 18th century and altered in 1845 and around the year 2000. The farmhouse is constructed of rubble stone with substantial boulder foundations and features three chimneys. An external painted roughcast stack is located on the upper west end, and two large, square, rendered stacks are positioned on the ridge, spaced apart. The slate roofs are steeply pitched with close eaves, and the eaves are slightly higher on the former byre to the left of the first ridge stack. The slates were renewed around the year 2000, incorporating red terracotta ridge tiles.

The north front has a pair of 20th-century casement windows on the ground floor to the right, followed by a larger pair of casements, both with concrete lintels and stone sills. A smaller pair of casement windows is situated under the eaves to the left, with a slate sill. A blocked loop window is located at mid-height further to the left, aligned with the first large chimney, likely a former stair light. The chimney has a projecting dripstone on the north side. A beam end is exposed in the wall to the left of the larger ground floor window. Between the two chimneys is a tall doorway with a concrete lintel. To the left of the second chimney is another door, accompanied by two small square windows; the left window has a damaged stone-slate hoodmould while the right window shows traces of a lost hoodmould. A painted roughcast wall on the west end features a prominent chimneybreast with angled set-offs, one to the left and three to the right. A 20th-century attic window is present to the left, and another is located to the right.

The south facade is divided into two distinct sections, with the lower portion stepped forward to the right of the first ridge stack, exhibiting lower eaves. The upper left section has a pair of casement windows under the eaves in the centre, a pair of casement windows on the ground floor to the left, and a door set within a circa-2000 porch to the centre right. The lower section includes a door to the left, a window under the eaves above, and two long former sash windows to the right, having timber lintels and stone-slate hoodmoulds above the left window and a stone-slate dripstone above the right window. A 12-pane window, also a former sash, is positioned above the left window.

At the lower east end is a former lofted stable, built of rubble stone with a corrugated-iron roof and a roughly central doorway. A small window is located to the right, beneath a loading door leading to the loft. Adjacent to this to the east are the remains of a pigsty with a stone-slate roof.

The interior, which was not available for inspection, was reported in 1988 to contain a roof with notched lapped collars to the trusses. There was also a framed partition in the east ground floor room with stop-chamfered jambs to the doorways, an old boarded door to the hall with similar jambs, and chamfered beams.