2 Bryntrystion

This is an early 19th-century house with later assembly rooms added to the rear. The assembly rooms were likely built for the workers of local mills and woollen factories in Cynwyd and are depicted on the Ordnance Survey map of 1891. Local tradition suggests the house was occupied by two generations of carpenters.

The building is a large, three-storey structure comprising a front range and a gabled rear range, joined by a hipped roof. The front range is roughcast and whitewashed, with a slate roof and a red brick stack with yellow brick quoins near the top of the hipped roof. It is two windows wide and has three storeys plus an attic. A full-length, lean-to porch canopy, covered with slate and supported by three timber posts, provides cover to the entrance. The doorway is on the right and has a half-lit, panelled door with margin glazing in the lower panels and an overlight above. A large, fully glazed bay window is on the left. The first and second floors each have a 12-pane hornless sash window with flat heads. A large, central, gabled dormer window illuminates the attic, featuring slate-hung sides, bargeboards, a finial, and a round-headed window with a two-light casement with small panes and intersecting glazing under the arch. There are no openings on the north gable end whereas the south gable end adjoins another building.

The rear range is flush with the gable ends of the front range and has an external brick stack on the east gable end. The north side, facing the lane, is three storeys high, with the floor levels being higher than those of the front range. The lower storey is mainly rubble stone, some of which is roughcast, with yellow brick surrounding the openings, which were inserted later. The first and second storeys are of red brick with yellow brick detailing, including quoins, a string course, and window surrounds that have segmental heads. The windows are mainly four-pane, horned sashes with margin glazing. There are three windows on the second floor; two similar windows on the first floor are not aligned, with a smaller sash to the far right, set within a segmental head of red brick.

Number 2 in the building consists of the front range and the western part of the rear range, with a panelled door with overlight to the right and a four-pane sash to its left on the north side. The south side of the rear range is not visible.

Access to the interior was not possible at the time of inspection.