Barn with stable and granary at Cwrt-y-Brychan

Barn, rubble stone with slate roof, raised as catslide over N double doors. Two loops to left. Right has 2 renewed casement pair windows below and tall boarded opening between, board covering back of cruck truss. Right end wall has 3 loops over blocked window and 2 doors, the right door with stone voussoirs of broader opening above, the other door and window with stone voussoirs. Rear SW wing has corrugated iron roof, broad lower opening with C20 timber lintel under C19 brick-sided loft door. To right, a C17 3-light ovolo-moulded timber mullion window. Windowless gable end. Rear has one first floor window, ground floor obscured by blockwork lean-to on rear of main barn, rest of barn rear has slate roof raised to cover brick lean-to originally with 4 doors, 2 now windows, the lean-to continued beyond barn E end with roof in clay tiles. Lean-to on barn E end wall.

Barn has massive trusses, and massive purlins to triple purlin roof. First from E a tie-beam and collar truss with replaced collar, roof has been raised in first 2 bays. Second truss is cruck truss with 2 collars, third is also a cruck with tie-beam and collar, massive triple purlins in fourth bay. Inserted loft floor in fourth and fifth bays. Fourth truss also cruck has lost collar, cruck spur on rear blade. Diagonally set square ridge beam. Added lofted C17 rear wing is open to barn at upper level but has massive oak framing below, perhaps a remnant of the original timber-framed outer wall, elsewhere replaced in stone. Five tie-beam and collar trusses with triple purlins, chamfered and stopped tie-beams notched for joists of attic floor, mostly removed, some square joists in one bay. Deep purlins, square diagonally set ridge beam, square rafters. Whitewashed plaster to first floor walls, blocked window in gable. Ovolo-moulded timber-mullion window on W side has one original diamond mullion. Rear wall has another 3-light ovolo-moulded mullion window with one mullion missing. Ground floor has heavy beams, square rough joists, blank opening on rear wall with chamfered and stopped lintel, another to right.