Shifna-hyr Farmhouse

Not inspected.

A large 2-storey farmhouse comprising an entrance range with gabled cross wing to its R, incorporated into the gable end of which is the gable end and stack of the original house. This T-shaped plan comprises the house as shown in 1839. A wing at right angles further R was added by 1870. The house is rubble stone with larger quoins and slate roof. The symmetrical 2-window main range has a coped gable to the L with stone finials to the eaves and apex, and a central brick ridge stack. It has 3-light mullioned windows and hood moulds. A central boarded door has an overlight, above which is a tablet bearing the arms of the Davies-Cooke family. In the gable end of the cross wing to the R the original stack has a tall square shaft and is partly rebuilt. On the R side of the base is a 2-light window. The gable line of the original house is lower than the present house, and has an integral buttress on the R side. In its R side wall the cross wing has a horizontal-sliding sash in the upper storey above an added half-glazed lean-to porch, inside which are a replaced door and window. The R-hand wing has a horizontal sliding sash in the upper storey under a stone lintel.

The L gable end of the main range is roughcast. The rear, built into a steep bank, has a pivoting light beneath the eaves, L of which is an added one-and-a-half-storey outshut with large quoins, a horizontal-sliding sash to the attic and boarded door below. In its lateral wall the outshut has a replaced window beneath a stone lintel. The gabled cross wing has a brick end stack and against the gable end are monopitched former pig sties, with walled pens (slate roofs partly missing). In its side wall are horizontal sliding sashes in both storeys. The R-hand wing, in its rear elevation, has a boarded up window in the lower storey.