Tir-brychiad

Tir-brychiad is a Grade II listed farmhouse of white-painted rubble stone with a slate roof and end stacks. The building comprises a two-storey house with a lofted byre in line under a continuous roof to the right, a large lofted outbuilding at right angles to the rear of the house, and a smaller lofted range at right angles to the front of the byre.

The house displays a tall square stone left chimney and a tall narrow renewed brick chimney on the ridge. The windows are of later 19th or 20th century date with brick sides, including two small casement pairs under the eaves and a large 20th century window, probably replacing a sash window, to the ground floor left and right, with the right one set further out than the casement pair above. Between these windows is a large gabled whitewashed stone porch with a cambered-headed door and stone voussoirs. To the extreme right, in line with the brick stack, is a small single casement lighting the stair. There is no structural joint to the byre, which has a first floor casement pair over a pent roof above the byre door with a timber lintel. The byre has an attached lower lofted range coming forward with a roof carried down as a pentice on large oak brackets. The front features an added painted brick outhouse to the left in the angle to the main range, with a roof carried over and a door in the return wall. There is a broad oak plank door in an elliptical-arched oak frame and a shuttered two-light ovolo-moulded oak mullion window, both under a pentice. The end wall has a ground floor window to the right and a square loft door with iron strap hinges and timber lintel to the centre above, with a triangular apex vent. The rear wall is windowless with a straight joint to the byre end gable.

The house has a slate-hung left end gable with a small 20th century window on each floor and whitewashed stone to the ground floor and end wall of an outshut. A long catslide roof covers the outshut with a large roughcast stack on the end wall and three windows to the rear. A large rear outbuilding is attached to the left. This outbuilding is lofted with a slated roof to the rear, carried down over an added outhouse facing onto the house rear yard. The front, at right angles to the byre rear, has a door with a timber lintel to a stable to the left and a small 17th century timber four-light unglazed diamond-mullion window to the right, also with a timber lintel. A blocked door is visible to the right, visible inside. An added two-bay open-sided hay barn with square stone piers and weatherboard in the end gable is constructed under a continuous roof. The byre rear has a 20th century metal two-light window under the eaves to the right over a through-passage door in the angle to the rear outbuilding. There is a centre low plank door with a timber lintel over a long 19th century loft door, and a tiny window to the left. The byre end gable has a small square three-light diamond-mullioned loft opening, with missing mullions, and a small square three-light opening to the ground floor left of centre with plain wood mullions.

The house plan is divided into two rooms with a massive chimneybreast at the right end, blocked in with the lintel said to have been removed after a fire. A stone winding stair is positioned to the right. Heavy chamfered beams include the first with a keeled stop, the second similar but very broad, the third on a plastered partition wall much cruder with stepped ogee stops. The left room was partitioned for a dairy in the corner. A fourth beam also has keeled stops. The fifth beam is broken for the chimney breast and has simple stepped stops. A small 20th century fireplace is present. The loft contains three heavy oak roof trusses, presumably with collars over the ceiling, with large lower purlins visible. The centre truss appears to be a raised cruck with curved feet visible.

The byre has a massive chamfered beam in the house wall with stepped ogee stops and a blocked bread oven below. A similar second beam is present with heavy squared joists between and lighter beams beyond. Blocked openings exist in the front wall to the left of the cross-passage door. The loft is rebuilt in the 19th century with a two-bay pegged pine roof.

The outbuilding coming forward of the byre has a stable to the ground floor with three stalls and six beams, four of which are chamfered. The loft has a 17th century oak three-bay roof with two collar trusses and triple purlins, although the purlins are not in their original housings. The stable to the rear of the house has heavy joists and a blocked door to the left of the window. The loft has a three-bay roof of oak collar trusses with the collars removed and double purlins. A loft window in the end wall opens into the added hay barn, which has a pegged pine roof.