Glan Glasfor to the rear of Morris & Co.

Glan Glasfor to the rear of Morris & Co is a Grade II* listed building comprising a shop with integrated house, dating from the late 19th century.

The shop exterior is constructed of snecked dressed stone with rusticated quoins and open pilasters finished with plain stone detailing. A hipped slate roof with corbelled eaves is topped by four large stacks with simple moulded caps. The symmetrical three-storey shop front features three windows to the upper floors. At ground floor, a tripartite shop window occupies the centre with depressed-arched heads and canted returns to flanking recessed entrances. These have glazed double doors and fanlights bearing enamelled lettering reading "Morris and Son." Flanking these entrances are a further pair of two-light shop windows matching the central design, with rusticated pilasters flanking the ground floor. A moulded wooden fascia with bracketed cornice is returned around the south-east side, displaying contemporary enamelled lettering reading "General Cambrian Establishment Drapers." The first floor contains a central two-light window with narrow two-pane sashes flanked by tripartite windows, all finished with plain entablature and moulded segmental pediments. A plain cill-band runs across. The second floor has two-pane sashes with flanking double sashes, with similar fenestration repeated on the eastern return wall.

To the left of the main façade, a recessed entrance bay serves the house, containing a four-panelled recessed door with glazed upper panels and plain fanlight lettered "Glan Glasfor." Between this entrance bay and the south-east return wall of the shop is a fine cast iron glazed open verandah supported on four fluted composite columns with scrolled and pierced decorative brackets. The verandah features a wooden entablature with egg-and-dart moulding and decorative dwarf railings with spear-head finials. Similar railings line the open south-east side, with a matching gate and gate-piers facing the street and a plain stone corner pier. The floor is finished with geometric tiling. Adjacent to the shop front on the right, a pair of Art Nouveau iron gates provide access to a narrow alley, above which spans a decorative scrolled arch supporting a large central former gas lamp.

The house exterior adjoins the rear of the shop at its main front. It is four storeys tall with attics and a raised ground floor, accessed by stepped parapeted stairs. A single-storey projecting porch with flat lead roof and moulded cornice frames recessed six-panel double-doors with frosted glass fanlight lettered "Glan Glasfor." Three-storey flanking canted bay windows flank a slightly recessed central section, all finished with plain Victorian two-pane sashes, plain cill courses, rusticated quoins and a bracketed eaves band. The flanking bays terminate in shallow gables with simply-moulded bargeboards and decorative finial bases, though the finials are now missing. Arched sash windows sit within these bays. Between the first and second floors of the central recessed bay is a plain plaque inscribed in raised lettering: "Glan Glasfor 1885." Modern flat-roofed dormers have been added to each roof face.

The shop interior on two floors is almost entirely unaltered and of outstanding interest. Throughout, pine and mahogany joinery is combined with moulded and polychromed plasterwork finished in its original paint scheme of two shades of green with a stencilled dado band. All original fittings, doors and door furniture with stained and frosted glass survive intact.

The shop hall contains original fixed shelving, glazed cupboards and central and perimeter counters, all topped by suspended brass rails for the display of cloth and finished with dentilated and scrolled cornices. A central upper gallery supported on cast iron columns occupies the shop hall, accessed via a remarkable open corkscrew staircase with swept mahogany rail, turned balusters and boarded underside. The treads and risers are covered with embossed and gilded leather finished with lead tread plates. The upper gallery features a similar balustrade and fitted bench along part of its length; this area originally served as the ladies' fitting room and retains a large wall mirror and fitted drawers and glazed cupboards. A dressmaking work room adjoins this, accessed through double part-glazed doors with lettering and an arched moulded entrance with carved head corbels, all polychromed.

Off the ground-floor shop hall is an office containing large wall mirrors, a moulded slate fireplace with foliate brackets and an original "Star Safe" by J.R. Brooks. The desk, leather-bound ledgers and calendar all survive.

The house features geometric tiled floors to both front and rear entrance halls with corbelled cornices and pitch-pine doors. An embossed fictive leather dado runs throughout. A narrow well stair on three floors has pine panelled sides, alternate turned balusters and a mahogany rail. The basement contains a bell-rack with 22 numbered bells above a counterchanged tiled floor. Plain fireplaces and ranges serve the former kitchen and servants' hall, which also retain glazed built-in cupboards and bracketed shelves.