Home Farm, Plas Newydd

Sawn and bolted king-post with struts roof trusses to main buildings. There is a bell in the louvred cupola over the E archway, and water tanks in the loft below.

Farm complex with original buildings forming U-plan; the S range is a single storey block with cowhouse and hammel, with advanced 2-storey wings either side, projecting N; E wing having lofted stable range, offices and servants quarters, W wing having corn-barn, cartsheds and farmhouse. The buildings surround 3 sides of a courtyard, open to the N, with main entrances through opposite archways in E and W wings. A stable range was added to the N side of the yard in the late C19, and there is a third entrance in the NE corner. The E and W wings are of two storeys with hipped slate roofs, and a raised pyramidal roof over the entrance archways. The wings are linked at the S by a single storey range with pitched slate roof. Walls of roughly squared rubble masonry with cambered brick arch heads to openings, and slate sills.

E wing: Main entrance through archway under a raised pyramidal roof and louvred cupola; stone arched head to exterior, brick arched to interior. To left (N) of entrance (viewed from courtyard), are servant's quarters; a 2-storey, 3-window range with door either end, that to the right being a stable door. Walls and chimney rendered; later small-paned windows set into original openings with cambered heads. Attached to N end is single storey boiling house with lean-to slate roof and tall brick chimney. To right (S) of archway is a lofted stable range including small farm office, tack-room, stables and loose-boxes. A range of 3 cambered-headed doorways with 2 windows between; windows to left are 8 and 10-pane lights over hit-and-miss ventilators, windows to stables have 14-pane lights over similar ventilators. Boarded doors to left with stable door to rignt end and full-height, boarded door to loft with sack hoist.

S range: single storey 21-bay range, comprising 9-bay cowhouse to left (E) and 12-bay hammel to right. Cowhouse originally with 7 doors with vertical slits between; now 2 doors and 5 windows (3-pane lights with hit-and-miss ventilators). Hammel with lower parts of walls and arched doors of brick; upper courses of stone. Nine of the 12 original doorways are blocked, 4 to form windows. The hammel yard has been built over with modern brick dairy buildings.

W wing: Entrance archway under raised pyramidal roof and cupola (identical to E entrance). To the left (S) is an asymmetrical 6-bay corn-barn with 3 rows of slit vents, and full-height threshing doors with brick heads to inner face and stone to outer. To right (N) of entrance, with a lower roofline than the corn-barn, is a 4-bay cartshed with 4-window granary over; the cart bay to the right has been blocked and a smaller door inserted (forming the back door of the farmhouse), and the one left of that converted to a wide window; the two granary windows over the right end have modern domestic windows (forming the back of the farmhouse). Two brick chimneys. On the ground floor, to the left end, is a boarded door to granary. To the right of the cartshed is an advanced 2-storey, 2-window domestic wing with hipped slate roof, central brick chimney and small-paned sash windows.

Farmhouse: The front of the farmhouse, on the W side of the cartshed-granary, is a 2-storey, 3-window range with a central gabled porch and asymmetrical window arrangement, showing the conversion from its original function as an agricultural building. The added porch has a round stone arched window; to left is 12-pane sash window, to right 20-pane French window, both square-headed. First floor window above porch, and to right, has cambered brick head and small-paned windows. Larger window to left with square head. Abutting the N side of the farmhouse is a smaller cottage, also converted from an agricultural building, and known as the Dairymaid's Cottage. Modern windows with brick architraves cut into gable end.

Other buildings: stable range: On the N side of the courtyard is a single storey stable range with stabling for 7 horses. Two bays to right are original, with 5 bays added to left. Rubble walls and gabled slate roof. Loose-box: In the N corner of the courtyard, next to the entrance created in the early C20, is a loose box for 2 horses with a small yard either end. Rubble walls, hipped slate roof with pitched roof addition to N. Blocked door to E side. Dairy: On the E side of the E wing, to the right of the entrance, is a 2 bay dairy with slate lean-to roof. Pigsty: On the E side of the E wing, attached to the yard wall N of the dairy is a 2-unit pigsty with a slate lean-to roof.