Bryntalch Villa

Bryntalch Villa is a vernacular revival lodge house, dating to the Victorian era. The building exhibits a balanced, asymmetrical design, with a hipped, clay tile roof and timber framing to the central gable. The central gable is flanked by the strong hipped roof sections to either side. It is a single-storey building with attics, with a wide, recessed central bay on the east front rising above eaves level as a timber-framed gable featuring decorative cusping above the collar level. A modern, half-glazed timber porch partially obscures this central bay. The entrance is on the south side of the central bay, behind the porch, and is accompanied by a mullioned and transomed window in the gable to its right, with a matching window on the first floor above. A projecting, recessed bay on the south side incorporates a two-light mullioned and transomed ground floor window, and a three-light dormer window of similar design beneath a hipped, tiled roof with wide projecting eaves at first floor level. A large, square brick stack with square shafts separated by diagonally set brick projections interrupts the low eaves of the hipped roof at its centre. The west elevation is simpler, with a narrow, two-storey projecting gable. The upper storey of this gable is clad in whitened horizontal boarding. A brick stack, similar to the one on the south elevation, rises from the apex of the northern hipped roof. To the north of the projecting gable is a small raking dormer containing a window with square quarries. Further north, the wall is recessed from the line of the stack to the eaves, creating the appearance of a lean-to. This area contains a planked rear door with a small light above, both set within segmental brick heads. The eaves line falls to the south of the projecting gable, where there is a modern planked door and a casement window below. The north and south ends of the building each contain a four-pane casement window under a segmental brick head; the north end also features a planked door. The interior was inaccessible at the time of inspection.