Gelli House

Gelli House is a 15th-century hall house constructed from limewashed rubble stone, topped with a slate roof and featuring brick stacks. The front elevation faces south. The single-storey plus attic structure on the left has three small 20th-century roof lights. The ground floor showcases repaired 17th-century ovolo mullions, with a two-light window to the left and a three-light window to the right, both having timber lintels and stone sills. To the right, there is a two-storey 19th-century addition with projecting end stacks. The first floor of this addition features a 20th-century 12-pane hornless sash window with a stone lintel and a thin stone sill. The ground floor entrance doorway on the left has a canopy with a flat hood supported by shaped consoles, leading to a six-panel door. To the right is another similar 12-pane sash window. Attached to the gable end is a two-storey outbuilding and garage. The back of the house was not accessible during the resurvey in August 1999, but the back wall of the hall contains a 17th-century two-light ovolo mullion window on the ground floor.

Entry to the hall is through the 19th-century kitchen, whereas the original entry was directly from the gable. The building has a two-unit plan consisting of the hall and partitioned service rooms at the lower end. The stone-flagged hall features chamfered ceiling beams with hollow and fillet (Wern-hir) stops. The hall fireplace has a deep, chamfered lintel with straight cut stops and monolithic stone jambs. To the left of the fireplace is a plank and batten door leading to the staircase. A transverse post and panel partition has openings at each end that mark the positions of former doorways to the rear service rooms. To the right of this partition is the chamfered foot of a cruck blade. The service rooms are separated by a similar axial post and panel partition. On the first floor, the northern cruck blade is visible. Mortices on the soffit of the purlins suggest that the open hall once had wind braces.