Aberbran Fawr

Interior plan is altered in C18. Entrance to E end room of E range (former cider room), partition to W kitchen. Three big beams in the two rooms. Passage through to main house to S of big chimneybreast. Broad enclosed stairs to S, between passage and rear wing. The main range is divided into three, 6 bays overall. E room has big E chimney with cambered-headed fireplace and fine C18 arched alcove, with moulded arched surround, keystone and shaped shelves. The middle room is spilt between a S side parlour and narrow N entrance hall. Parlour has C18 fielded panelling and good timber chimney-piece with corniced shelf and overmantel raised panel between fluted pilasters with cornice broken forward above. Panel is square with an inset octagonal panel, the diagonal sides concave, and 4-petal flowers in outer corners. Delft tiles in fireplace. Fine arched corner cupboard similar to alcove in E room, with fielded panelled doors, shaped heads. Eight panel fielded panel doors to E and W. W end room has two chamfered beams and another C18 arched cupboard with keystone and fielded panelled doors. S wall has fine C16 very large fireplace with grey stone square-headed surround with date 1749. Fireplace jambs are ovolo and wave moulded. Fielded panelled shutters. First floor has a long corridor along N front and altered rooms.

Farmhouse, former gentry house, rubble stone mostly roughcast, with stone-tile and slate roofs. Two storeys, two parts. The older and longer part to W. This has a massive double lateral chimney on the rear S wall, the left chimney with raised chimneybreast, the right one rising from the wall edge, the main shafts linked but the top stacks separated. The windowless W end has a ground floor blocked late medieval depressed-arched door. The N front is pebbledashed with widely separated windows and close eaves. One 4-pane sash to first floor left, a 12-pane sash each floor to right, and door with overlight to right of centre, blank window over. Straight joint to C18 shorter range to E. Colour-washed rubble with slate roof of steeper roof pitch. C18 stone end stacks, the right one larger. Two window range, two first floor C20 windows with timber lintels. Ground floor has two doors, the left one formerly a window, the right one in an oak frame, board door with wrought iron hinges, and overlight. E end wall has attic window. Two gabled low rear wings, both of rubble stone, the rear wall between them with two C20 upper windows, two lower windows one C20, one louvred for ventilation. Wing to W has W side boarded door to left, and dripstone of blocked opening to right; S end loft window with oak lintel and dripstone, and E side oak lintel to 9-pane window to right, overgrown window to left. Wing to E has boarded window with top lights on E wall. The rear of the older range has one bay to left of the big chimneys and two to the right, and the roof slope retains stone tiles. The bay to left has a 4-pane sash over an inserted 12-pane sash with concrete sill. The two bays to right have 12-pane sashes each floor, the left ones with stone sills. A spur wall attached to the NW corner has a four-centre arched doorway, possibly to a former cross-passage.