Tile Farm (Ysgubor Kemeys)

Tile Farm (Ysgubor Kemeys) is a two-storey farmhouse with an attic, dating from the 17th century and later, with attached agricultural buildings arranged in a line. The farmhouse is constructed of random rubble limestone, originally with a pronounced batter to the lower walls—the front is now partially stripped of its smooth render. It has a slate roof with stone chimneys at each end; the left-hand chimney is corbelled to serve the first floor, and the right-hand chimney provides heat for a ground floor room. There are two modern windows on the upper floor. On the ground floor, a doorway is offset to the left, accompanied by a small window to its left, a modern window to its right, and a further small square window.

To the left of the farmhouse is an attached barn constructed of stone and brick, featuring a doorway, a modern window to the right, and a vent slit to the left, all under a tiled roof. To the left of the barn is a smaller stone unit with an old pantile roof, followed by pigsties. To the right of the farmhouse is an attached stable, and at a right angle to that, a bakehouse, with further small attached blocks extending towards the road.

The rear of the house features a single window at the eaves, and a blocked window on the ground floor. At the north east corner of the house, two small windows illuminate the stairwell; the upper window has ovolo-moulded mullions, while the lower window is partially blocked.

Inside the main part of the farmhouse, a single ground floor room formerly contained a 20th-century wooden screening forming an interior porch, but this has largely been removed. It features stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops – the joists were originally ceiled, but the plaster is now mostly gone. A large 17th-century fireplace is present, with a winding stair to its left. A blocked four-light window is visible at the rear, and a blocked doorway appears to be in the north west corner. At first floor level, 19th-century partitions were originally present, but are now mostly removed. The attic contains an old oak roof supported by principal rafter trusses with two tiers of purlins. The barn incorporates the house’s kitchen and scullery, constructed with brick partition walls that partially obscure the base of the corbelled chimney stack for the first floor fireplace. The bakehouse retains its 19th-century bake oven.