Steps up to Penlan, with flanking walls

Long flight of steps leading up the hillside to the E side of Bull Street. The steps are flanked by rubble walling with flat stone slab coping. The central dividing wall is of coursed blockwork with a shaped, raking coping with rounded central ridge and square newels at the angles with stepped and pyramidal caps. The steps themselves are formed from large blocks of stone, possibly from the quarry close to Gelli Grin. At the left side of the steps is a flat-headed archway into the grounds of Penlan. Built of roughly coursed masonry and with slate slab drip course and coping to an embattled parapet. The left hand flight led up to the house at Penlan and the right hand flight up to the servant's quarters (now called Bryn or Penlan flats); the quality of the stonework and the width of the steps clearly reflects the status of the users, the left hand flight being of considerably finer construction.