Llanbradach Fawr

Llanbradach Fawr is a large farmhouse, built at an unknown date but with significant development through the 18th and 19th centuries. The external walls are constructed of rubble, roughly rendered, and covered with a slate roof featuring a corniced ridge and end and lateral stacks. A two-storey porch is centrally located and integrated with a lower range to the right, which also features a later, lower cross wing projecting forward on the right-hand side. On the uphill (left) side, the porch is attached to a later range with a higher ridge. The rear elevation displays two adjacent gabled cross wings, one to each range, with the uphill side wing being lower and less deep, and incorporating a large stack in the angle.

The porch has a steeply gabled roof and contains a six-over-six pane sash window on the first floor and a moulded Tudor-arched doorway with sunk chamfers, incised spandrels, and a square hoodmould. Inside the porch are narrow benches with wooden seats, a flagstone floor, and corbels supporting the ceiling. The front door is six-panelled with a segmental arched overlight. A fireback dated 1721 is attached to an adjacent wall. To the left of the porch, on the uphill side, is a two-window range featuring tripartite small-pane sashes, with stone-tiled voussoirs, cambered heads to the first floor, and segmental-arched heads to the ground floor. To the right of the porch, on the downhill side, is a two-storey, three-window range with replaced small-pane casements and a central doorway with a part-glazed door and hood. The rear roof sweeps down low over the downhill range, and small pane casements are found in the cross wings. Enclosing walls define a rectangular garden to the front.

The original house plan comprised three units—a central hall with a service passage entered from the south porch, a kitchen to the right, and a parlour to the left. This was later extended to the right to provide a larger kitchen and to the rear, incorporating a grander staircase and a brewhouse. The main staircase is accessed from the hall and the rear passage, featuring solid oak treads rising in short, straight flights with short landings around a rectangular stone core. The uphill ground floor reception room, leading off the hall, has panelled reveals, fragmentary panelling, and a moulded plaster frieze dating from a Georgian remodelling. The downhill rooms to the right contain doorways with chamfers and stops, including a former buttery with two chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, remains of a former staircase beside a deep fireplace, and a kitchen retaining a fireplace with a heavy lintel, ovens, a stone flue, remodelled stairs, and boxed-in beams. The rear living room, originally the brewhouse, features beams with broach stops. A first floor bedroom above the parlour has a plaster frieze contemporary with the ground floor Georgian remodelling and wide panelled doors.