An L-plan range on the east of Ivy Tower House (NPRN 25291). Originally, with Warden's Cottage (NPRN 16395), a late medieval-early sixteenth century house, altered and (?) extended in the seventeenth century. Reconfigured as servive range to Ivy Tower in the early eighteenth century. It is rubble-walled, roughcast or whitewashed, with steeply pitched slate roofs. These have slate-hung dormers and brick and rubble chimney stacks. The external openings are modern.
There has been limited excavation in the north-south range (NMR Site File).
The north-south range, abutting the house, is now a two storey building a late medieval-sixteenth century hall and undercroft, with sub-cellar on the south. Sixteenth century features, including a five light wooden mullioned window, are demonstrably secondary. The northern room has re-used seventeenth century ceiling beams.
The east-west range has seventeenth century timber elements, including a single cruck, although these could represent the remodelling of an earlier range. Where it adjoins Warden's Cottage it is catslide-roofed. At the far, eastern, end there is a stone vaulted cellar or undercroft, matching the Cottage's eastern cellar. This suggests that the range was originally U-plan.
OS County series (Brecknock. XLI.8 1889, 1904) show the north-south range continuing rather to the north and then turning to meet the folly tower (NPRN 23000).

Sources: NMR Site Files
CADW Listed Buildings Database (7266)

John Wiles 27.02.07