Small storeyed sub medieval house, winding stone stair, chamfered beams.

Gwar-Cwm-Uchaf, Taliesin.
A stone-built, early C17th, down-hill sited house & byre range of hearth-passage-entry plan with late C18th barn/ cow-house below in-line. The house fireplace has a chamfered timber lintel and bread oven projection and there are chamfers & broach like stops to ceiling-beams. A winding stair to side of fireplace, once gave access also to loft over the byre (now blocked). The house must have gone out of domestic usage soon after the new house was built in the late C19th to the west.
In the early-C19th the byre became domestic accommodation by adding wide splay windows to front and rear (blocked at rear). Fireplaces were added in the lower gable end to each floor along with a new joist floor supported by a reused transverse ceiling-beam. Subsequently ca 1900 the original lateral entry and hearth entry were blocked to provide a stable for 4 horses with lateral manger and ties. Presumably at this time a new doorway entry in the lateral wall was also made for the upper house part. Its rear doorway may be original to a lean-to service area (now extended as a cart house).
The 4-bay barn has opposed medium size doorways with ventilation slits and lower lofted bay for cattle tethered to a transverse beam against the slab-floor threshing-bay.

Parallel to this range is a ca 1900, stone-built, un-lofted cow-house with lateral feed-passage and brick/concrete manger & tethering for 10 cattle.
At right-angles are roofless remains of double-unit pig-sties each with yard.

There is also a ruined stone-built farm building (cart-house?) to the south-west, by the track, with evidence for a loft.

Visited G A Ward, 23/07/2002