The Bryn

A 2½-storey 3-bay Queen Anne house with later Georgian remodelling, of pebble-dashed stone walls, painted white to the front, steep slate roof and pebble-dashed end stacks. The central doorway has replacement French doors with wooden shutters. It is flanked by tripartite windows with replacement 2-pane sashes. A hipped veranda across the entire front has renewed polygonal wooden posts, slate roof to the sides and glazed roof in the centre. The upper storey has 12-pane sash windows, hornless in the centre, and tripartite hornless sashes in the outer bays. A broad central gable has a small-pane round-headed attic window, flanked by 3-light roof dormers added in the 1940s. On the L side is a 1-storey projection, partly built into the veranda, and in the L gable end is a replacement attic window on the L side.

The veranda is wrapped around the R angle, to a C19 pebble-dashed porch, which has a replacement panel door. Above it is a 12-pane hornless sash window. Further R is Little Bryn and on the opposite side of the rear is Bryn Canol, both formerly service wings but now separate dwellings. Between them is the stair turret, which has a 12-pane horizontal-sliding sash to the upper landing, and a fixed 6-pane window to the lower landing.

The plan of the house was altered in the C19 but the original plan can be conjectured. The main entrance probably opened to the larger R-hand room, which had a stair at the rear, and parlour to the L, therefore still in the vernacular tradition. The well-preserved broad, full-height dog-leg stair has moulded newels and plain balusters. The ground floor was altered in the C19 when a corridor was created from the entrance in the gable end, with elliptical arch leading into the R-hand room. A narrow corridor led from the original entrance and both corridors converged at the stair. Most windows have C19 panelled reveals. Of 3 roof trusses visible, one has a dovetailed collar beam.