Cilfeigan Farmhouse

Clilfeigan Farmhouse is a house dating from the 16th century, with later 17th and 19th-century alterations. It is rendered over what is probably local limestone rubble, with a Welsh slate roof. The house has an L-shaped plan, with both main sections extending over three full storeys, alongside a single-storey kitchen wing and a lean-to over the rear entrance.

The front elevation is rendered to resemble ashlar, with rusticated quoins and a modillion cornice. The facade is almost symmetrical, though a wider gap for the right-hand window indicates its age. It is a three-bay front with a central entrance, which has a gabled porch with an ogee-headed stone surround and scalloped bargeboards. This porch and the plank door within, which remains in its original chamfered 4-centred frame, are early Victorian. The entrance is flanked by three-light mullion-and-transom windows, and there are also three two-light windows on each of the upper floors, all of which are Victorian. The roof has a fairly low pitch with gable stacks, each featuring three flues topped with decorative Victorian terracotta pots. The left gable has two 16th-century stair windows with moulded frames, 4-centred heads, and diamond lattice glazing. The remainder of the wall is blank, though the rear wing has a late 20th-century steel three-light casement window on the ground floor, representing a new opening. The right gable end contains a small stair window with two panes by two panes, likely dating from the 17th century. The rear wall of the front range has plain windows on the first and second floors. The rear door is situated within the lean-to. The rear wing itself is largely concealed by the lean-to on the ground floor, and has a six-pane by six-pane casement window on the first floor, and a late 20th-century top-opening light window on the top floor. A single-storey Victorian wing is plain, with a gabled roof and a large brick stack.

Inside the main range, there is a cross-passage and large, high-ceilinged rooms on either side. These rooms both contain firestairs in the rear corner; the north one is partly stone, while the south one is timber and has been rebuilt on the upper floor. There are suggestions of a possible 'great room' on the first floor. The roof structure consists of basic principal rafter trusses with staggered purlins and no ridge piece, clearly designed to accommodate plaster ceilings in the second-floor rooms. The secondary rafters and sarking are Victorian.