Sylfaen

Sylfaen and Brynafon Double depth plan with additional rear wing. 2 storeys and cellar, 4-window range. Brick front with rubble to left hand bay, slate roofs, 2 red brick ridge stacks, one end stack to rear range. The house and shop each have a 2 unit plan with central chimney and front door. The upper storey windows of the front elevation are 12-pane cast iron casements rising to the eaves with stone sills and cast iron quadrant stays. The ground floor windows are similar 16-pane casements under stone wedge lintels. A window to the S of the shop front is tripartite under a round headed arch. The house has a 4-panelled front door in a doorcase which has a flat cornice, consoles, moulded pilasters and is approached by stone steps. The shop front is intersected by a door and forms a projecting unit with a flat entablature which runs from end to end. It appears that the door, which is similar to that in the house but with wider pilasters, has been moved outwards to meet it. The shop front consists of plain wooden frames on red-brown brick bases, but the windows have been boarded over. The S half of the shop front is later than the N half. The rear range, like the left bay of the front range is in random rubble masonry, but it has modern doors and windows. The short, rear wing has a light timber-framed gable end and there is an outshut section between the two rear ranges. A dog kennel butts against the N end of the building and there is a cast iron casement window above.

No access was available to the interior at time of inspection (January1996).