Cartref

Cartref is a terraced house built from red brick in English bond, featuring dentilled brick eaves that connect with No 2 Brynhyfryd. The roof is covered with old slates and has tall brick end stacks, with the left stack shared with No 2 Brynhyfryd and the right stack shared with Victoria Buildings. The house is one and a half storeys tall and includes a cellar. A piece of rubble stone with a straight joint to the brickwork at the extreme left of the ground floor suggests that there may have been an earlier building on the site of No 2 Brynhyfryd.

The house is double-fronted, with a central doorway flanked by windows that have cambered heads. Since 1983, the original small-paned cross-windows have been replaced with 20th-century uPVC windows. There are two stone steps leading up to a two-panel door that has a similar head in a bead-moulded doorframe, topped with a metal gabled hood supported by shaped wooden brackets. The upper windows, which also have been replaced with uPVC since 1983, are located under small bargeboarded gables. The rear wall is made of rubble stone and features a cross-window with an iron opening light on the right and a single casement on the left.

Inside, the ground floor rooms have chamfered beams. The north wall has a fireplace with a timber elliptical-arched surround, similar to one found in Myrtle House on Bishops Castle Street. The south room contains a wall cupboard with a panelled door to the right of the fireplace, a two-panel door leading to the entrance hall, and a plank door with strap hinges leading to the rear hall. An oak winding staircase with square balusters and a narrow handrail leads to a short landing with a railing. There are two two-panel doors and one plank door on the first floor, and off the north room is a tiny northwest room. The attic stair has a similar rail and turns at right angles. The roof structure includes one truss with a partition and two purlins on each side.

At the rear, stone steps descend to a semi-basement kitchen featuring oak beams. Inside, a section of a curving massive rubble wall runs parallel to the west rear wall and may be part of an older structure. The kitchen has a fireplace on the north wall.