Cwmerra Farm

Cwmerra Farm is a one-and-a-half storey building with a west-facing front comprising a 17th-century house on the left and a former cider house on the right. It is built of rubble stone with a slate roof.

The house features a stone end stack and a rendered off-centre ridge stack with three diagonally set flues. The former cider house has a rendered ridge stack. The dominant feature of the front elevation is a large off-centre lateral gable positioned to the left. Within the roof slope on either side of this gable are 20th-century hipped dormers, each with 6+6 pane casements—one to the left of the gable and two to the right. All other windows are topped with angled dripstones featuring dropped and returned ends.

The lateral gable contains 17th-century sunk-chamfer wooden mullion windows. At the gable head is a 2-light mullion; below is a 4-light window with 3+3+3+3 panes; and at ground floor level is a similar 4-light window with iron stanchions. On the ground floor to the left is a 17th-century 4-light sunk-chamfer mullion window with 3+3+3+3 panes. Immediately to the right of the gable is a cross-passage doorway with a segmental arch of stone voussoirs and a plank and batten door with strap hinges. Adjacent to this is a 20th-century 4-light ovolo mullion window with 3+3+3+3 panes.

The former cider house to the right has an inserted 20th-century lateral gable with a 3+3+3+3 pane casement in the gable head. On its ground floor are a 3+3+3 casement window and an entrance doorway with a 20th-century glazed door. A single-storey gabled extension is attached to the south gable.

The rear elevation displays a large lateral gable on the right, corresponding to the front gable, with similar sunk-chamfer windows on each floor. To its right is a 3+3+3 sunk-chamfer mullion. To the left are a small 3+3 pane staircase window and the boarded door of the cross passage with a 20th-century 6+6 pane dormer above, followed by a small 2+2 pane casement and a smaller gable with a 20th-century 6+6 pane casement in its head and a 20th-century 4-light ovolo mullion with 3+3+3+3 panes below. The former cider house to the left has external stone steps leading to an upper loft, accessed via a 20th-century glazed door under a raised monopitch roof, with a small 20th-century rooflight and a 2+2 pane casement on the ground floor.

Interior

Entry is through a broad stone-flagged cross passage, which contains an inserted 20th-century wooden staircase. To the left of the cross passage, a 17th-century doorway with an ornate shaped head leads to the former hall. This space retains a corner stair of winders to the right. A transverse post and panel partition formerly separated the hall from partitioned rooms beyond; part of this partition has since been removed and realigned to create an enlarged L-plan room that encloses a small inner parlour. The partition doorways retain their shaped door-heads with double roll moulding to the door jambs.

The hall features 17th-century chamfered ceiling beams with hollow and fillet stops (Wern-hir stops) and a broad fireplace opening with a flat head and massive chamfered monolithic lintel and jambs. In the corner of the adjoining parlour, a narrow stone staircase with winders rises to an upper chamber.

To the right of the cross passage, at the former service end, the original post and panel partitions do not survive. On the upper floor, surviving cruck trusses are visible, including the upper section of the partition truss with close studding between collar and tie beam, and the collar-beam truss of the former open hall.