Cefn Faes, Gellilydan

Well restored with early stonework in walls and old roof timbers displayed throughout. Deeply splayed window openings. Southern portion of southeast facing wing retains large stone bressummer fireplace and red and black square tiled floor. Northwest side of the cross passage opposite the front door seemingly lost in the process of adding the rear kitchen. Single step up into northeast room where original central chimney is concealed. At northeast end large timber bressummer with stone spiral stair beside, large timber chamfered beam across ceiling of this room with notches on the southwest side where there may formally have been a partition between the hall and a parlour, both with a hearth. Stone flag floors throughout much of ground floor. First floor has small timber bressummer fireplace relating to the middle chimney of the southeast facing range. Internal ground floor window and upper storey former loading doorway into the double floor height kitchen in outshut. Three steps down from kitchen outshut into the lower southwest facing range.

L-shaped in plan with main range facing southeast of two stories and parlour block facing southwest of two and a half stories. Rubble stone with pitched Welsh slate roofs with a triangular hipped peak where the southeast facing range joins the slightly taller southwest facing range, with a catslide down to single storey height behind the southeast facing range. Four stone chimney stacks, one centrally placed on the main range, others at the open gables facing northeast, southwest and northwest. Modern hornless sash windows in original openings.

Main southeast facing elevation has off-centre door with datestone with heraldic shield above and 9 pane sash over. To left 12 pane sash to ground floor with 9 pane above, massive cornerstone in wall to far left. To right of door 12 pane sash at ground level and further right windows to ground and first floor, both 9 pane sashes. Datestone includes shield of arms of a single chevron with three birds, crows in the shield of Llywarch ap Bran, somewhat naively depicted and without the ermine spots held in the beaks of the crows sometimes depicted elsewhere. Initials ‘E’ above, ‘I’ on left and ‘Ll’ to right with date 1651 below.

Southwest facing elevation has blind open gable to far right, modern door just off centre to left with 12 pane sash to left. To first floor a 12 pane sash to far left, 9 pane sash over the door and another 9 pane to right of this.

Northwest facing gable is blind as is the northeast facing gable except for a single tall light in the lower portion under the catslide. In rear yard catslide roof has three rooflights into ground floor room, below which rear door with a pair of 9 pane sashes to right and 12 pane sash to right of this. Rear part of the southwest facing range is blind except for 9 pane sash to first floor in the gap between the lower catslide and the main roofpitch, which incorporates one modern rooflight, two more rooflights in the southwest facing pitch.

Stone barn to south (also shown on 1841 Tithe map), dry stone walled yards to southeast and southwest incorporating ruinous ty bach.