Coach-house and stable range built in 1804 to serve Melai. Melai was an important seat in the early medieval period and was the ancestral home of the Wynnes of Melai and Maenen Abbey; from this house descended the Wynnes of Garthewin and the Lords Newborough of Rug.
A fine two-storey stable and coach-house range of squared, roughly dressed slate blocks with 19th century graded slate roofs, hipped at the ends. There is an eleven bay, symmetrical facade with an advanced 3-bay pedimented section to the centre. This has a large segmentally-arched entrance 'tunnel' giving access to the rear service courtyard, and which has dressed slate voussoirs with a projecting central keystone and a plain dripstone which continues along the whole length of the facade as a first-floor sill course. Above the arch, in the gable apex. is an oculus with a painted clock face and a simple apron below. Flanking the arch are single arched window openings to the ground and first floors with projecting sills and keystones and square-headed wooden cross-windows. The flanking sections have similar windows, though with depressed heads,to the first floor, with wide depressed-arch coach/cart openings to the ground floor outer bays. The inner three bays of each side consist of a central round-headed entrance with flanking cross windows, the door to the left having a boarded lower door, pegged frame and segmental boarded fanlight. In the centre of the roof is a octagonal wooden cupola with a sloped, leaded roof and large ball finial surmounted by a complex iron weather-vane with a boars head crest.
The rear facade has a central arch as before, and open segmental overlight surmounting it. To the left is a one and a half storey projection with a catslide roof housing a central flight of covered stone steps to the upper floor; door with segmentally-arched head, boarded door and pegged frame. To the left of the stair entrance id a modern stable door with modern window above, to the right a small rectangular unglazed light, with a plain glazed window to the eaves above. Left of the stair projection is an open entrance with a plain glazed window above, both with segmentally-arched heads. To the right of the main arch is a second stair access leading to the first floor; this is an open flight, parapetted and laterally placed against the side of the building. Beyond this is a further ground floor segmental window with boarded shutter.
Adjoining the range at the east end, and set at right angles to it is a short section of curved wall which, together with a mirroring section from the barn range opposite forms an enclosing screen wall to the courtyard; probably a mid 19th century addition. Behind this wall is a two-bay single storey lean-to with modern door and window.
(based on CADW listing description, S Fielding RCAHMW 18/05/2005)
