Glyn Bran Farmhouse

Farmhouse, whitewashed rubble stone with imitation stone tiles to roofs and whitewashed stone end stacks, with weathercoursing. One and a half storeys, long front range with large gable to left of squared rubble stone. Gable has apex square chimney and weathercourses above and below attic casement-pair window, both courses clad in lead in late C20. Ground floor has centre French window and casement pair to left. Two renewed oak brackets for pentice over door and a third to right. Further right, another ground floor casement pair with oak lintel. Two larger casement pairs (the right one possibly a former door) with timber lintels, under 3 cut-off beam ends and 2 surviving beams of former pentice. Eaves dormer above first of the two windows with casement pair and timber lintel. To furthest right is a small ground floor casement pair. C20 stone seat along front wall, front wall appears to be battered out where visible at extreme right, but not at left,. Six steep stone stairs down at extreme left to arched doorway into stone vaulted basement room. Right end wall has added conservatory. with curve of former bread oven visible, casement pair to first floor right and diamond-mullioned oak window to right. Rear wall left has battered base, 6 cut-off ends of another pentice over C20 oak 4-light diamond-mullioned window. C20 stone rear wing to right with reused oak-plank entrance door in angle to main range. Left end gable of main range has rounded bread-oven projection. carried on corbels. Walling of squared rubble stone like S front gable. Two raised bands in gable.

Two-room plan with kitchen to W and hall to E. Kitchen has 5 C20 beams and C20 fireplace. There was a dividing wall to W of French window under a massive beam all now gone. Good C17 post and panel partition between rooms with segmental-arched heads to plank doors and chamfered and stopped surrounds to panels. Beam above with stepped ogee stops (Wernhir type). Hall has further 5 similar beams, the last over fireplace with oak lintel. Lintel has small triangular recess inset. Winding stair to left of fireplace with 3 oak bottom steps. Doorway to right of fireplace into former closet. C20 stairs in added rear wing. Loft has one large raised cruck truss to centre, with pegged yoke, oak collar truss to E and 2 to W, the westernmost one dated 1774 on front wall foot.