Fferm Farmhouse

Retains its sub-medieval plan-form and much original detail: cross-passage, to right contains original post and panel wooden screen with 2 segmental-headed openings, with late C17 panelled doors. Doorway to left is service and that to right has much more elaborate carved wooden architrave details emphasing that right hand door is more polite. Single storey hall retains good Tudor-arched sandstone fireplace, heavy stopped moulded beams to ceiling, with iron meat hooks dating from when this room was used as a kitchen. To S later inserted partition walls which forms present kitchen/cloakroom. Service cross-wing: timber-framed partition wall with 2 doorways, with boarded doors with latches, leads into this wing from the cross-passage. Large kitchen to the rear, with former serving hatch visible. Large sandstone fireplace with rear recess for salt. Massive over-built ceiling with chamfered and stopped joists. Former pantry to front, raised floor to accommodate cellar space below. Now heated with small Regency fireplace re-used from bedroom upstairs. Narrow late C17 well-staircase in former buttery position, wooden with carved and turned balusters and handrail. Staircase continues up to attic via a lobby borrowed from the original chamber over the kitchen. The access to the attic may possibly date from an early C17 phase of alterations. Room above pantry; stone fireplace, flat plaster ceiling with simple cornice, original ribbed and boarded door. Other rooms contain similar fireplaces and a number of contemporary arched and chamfered doors. Cellar; worn stone steps, partly stone flagged floor with later slate storage shelves.

Late C16 small manorial house, and its design follows the local vernacular style of other such houses such as Pentrehobyn. It is built of stone rubble, probably once rendered, with sandstone dressings to windows and doors, slate roof. Entrance elevation: central storeyed gabled porch which was added shortly after the house was originally constructed although it is unclear exactly when. Stone kneelers and modern ball finials. An ogee arched doorway (probably from W wall of brewhouse) with moulded dripmoulding. The spandrels of the arch bear the date 1506 and this appears to have been recarved in the C19. Above the porch doorway is a niche in which a C19 topographical watercolour depicts the date 1589; now there is a stone cartouche here containing the Lloyd arms, this was imported in the mid C20 from another building. Behind the arch the original entrance has a four-centred arch which leads directly into the cross-passage. To left; gable kitchen cross-wing of 2 storeys with attic. Stone mullioned windows to all floors, some with transomes and mostly 3-light. To right large lateral rubble stack with tall decorative brick chimneys, modern brick stack to right of porch to N of house. Rear elevation: to left Hall range; stone depressed ogee-arched doorway, with massive iron studded door leads directly into cross-passage. Stone mullioned and transomed windows; the cross wing has 6-light window below a 5-light window and a small stepped window to the gable. W gable end; probably re-built in the C18 when the parlour wing was demolished. Gable wall contains reset stone mullioned and transomed window to first floor.