Bronwylfa

Bronwylfa is a late 18th-century townhouse forming part of a terraced row. It has a low-pitched slate roof with a small central gable and square brick stacks on the rear roof slope. The front is faced in painted brick with a Flemish bond pattern, featuring raised brick quoins shared with the adjacent Cullen House. Three storeys are topped by a cellar, with three bays articulated by two broad, full-height canted projections and outer quoins. A moulded cornice runs around the bays and up the sides of the centre gable. The bays have late Georgian sash windows with thin glazing bars and gauged brick flat heads; 16-pane sashes to the main floors and 12-pane sashes to the top floor. The narrow, gabled centre has an upper window set low, with a triangular gauged brick head and fixed small-paned glazing, with a triangular top over 12 panes. A first-floor window, possibly of earlier date, is smaller than those on either side, also with a cambered brick head and a sash window with thick glazing bars to 16 small panes. A stone staircase with one rectangular and two semi-circular steps, complete with iron railings, leads to a large painted timber doorcase featuring Tuscan pilasters, entablature blocks and an open pediment. A tall doorway is surmounted by an unusual timber overlight pierced to create a crude radiating-petal fanlight, above a fielded-panelled six-panel door. Two cambered-headed cellar openings have plain square timber mullions. The rear wall is of red brick, with a two-pitch roof and two large brick chimneys at the junction. A 20th-century dormer window has been added to the rear. The rear includes an iron small-paned cross-window and a stuccoed lower southeastern wing with a chimney breast. Stone setts are laid in front.

The interior is arranged around a central hall containing a mid-18th-century staircase with a large column newel, column-on-vase turned balusters, scrolled tread ends and a heavy moulded handrail. The front rooms have bays dating to around 1800, although earlier beams are present beneath. The northeast room features a fluted frieze and two plastered beams, along with two small arched cupboard recesses in each canted bay wall and a modern chimney piece on the rear wall. The northwest room has similar plastered beams, a mid-to-later 18th century frieze of a trumpet-like pattern in ovals to the central beam and rearward ceiling panels. A wide skirting board is present, along with a fireplace on the rear wall featuring a shouldered surround and a fine early 19th-century iron grate; a shelf with a fluted edge is positioned above the fireplace. The southwest room has a chamfered and stopped beam. A narrow oak service stair leads elsewhere. A fielded-panelled four-panel door provides access to the kitchen in the rear southeast wing, which has a timber-framed east wall, two large beams, and a fireplace on the north wall, backing onto the front room fireplace. The first floor displays heavy cross-axial beams on the partition walls dividing the two front rooms, with fielded panelled two-panel doors. The northeast room also has an axial beam. The rear walls of the first floor have narrow tall fireplaces in shouldered surrounds with shelves above. The staircase to the top floor features flat, tapering, and pierced balusters of a 17th-century style, but are probably mid-18th century.