Ty Gwyn

Ty Gwyn

House in Arts and Crafts style, rendered in white with red-tiled roof and off-centre ridge stack. One and a half storeys, with late 20th-century replacement windows in plastic throughout. The west side features two gabled dormers and a ground floor recessed veranda. The left two bays of the veranda are infilled with a 20th-century greenhouse, but original narrow leaded windows survive on both the front wall and end wall. The next three bays remain open with late 20th-century wooden posts and three 4-light casement windows. A bay to the right of the veranda, under the same roof, has a side door into the veranda and a 4-light casement to the front with a dropped sill to the centre two lights.

The south end wall features a first-floor casement pair (formerly with a tiled hood) and a ground-floor large arched French window. To the right stands a square bay window with a hipped tiled roof and a 4-light window to the front, with a dropped sill to the centre two lights. This bay sits on the side wall of a rear wing gable-ended to the east, which has a first-floor triple window and a smaller window lower to the right lighting the stair. The roof to the right is an outshut over a casement pair to the left of an arched doorway. A short wall with an archway at right angles screens the doorway from the service area to the right, which contains two doors, a window, and a lean-to with a roof carried down and a door facing the yard. A 20th-century dormer has been added on the outshut roof. Within the recessed arched entry sits an original cambered-headed studded plank door.

The north end wall has a first-floor window to the centre, another to the left in the outshut, and three windows to the ground floor, with a fourth to the left in the end wall of the lean-to.

The interior demonstrates distinctive Arts and Crafts design. The entry leads into a rear stair-hall with a spine passage. The west centre contains the dining room, with a southwest L-plan drawing room. A small study occupies the southeast, while the north end holds the kitchen with northeast sculleries. The floors are wood-block, with simple woodwork to nine-panel doors, picture rails, and skirtings throughout.

The fireplaces are characteristic of the architect's work, featuring a flat surround of plain square tiles of varying sizes, lightly glazed, with a simple wooden shelf above on brackets. Notable wrought iron door furniture includes hinges and door plates of high quality.

The stair hall contains a two-flight stair turning 90 degrees with two slat balusters to one diagonally-set stick baluster, a moulded rail, plain closed string, and three newels with caps and ball finials. The top spine corridor features two large circular openings in the plastered wall overlooking the stair hall below. Beneath these openings stands a small triangular-plan tiled recess for a stove with a tiled hearth in brown-glazed tiles.

The front door displays fine and elaborate wrought iron door latch, two sliding bolts, and heart-ended strap hinges. An arch at the north end of the hall leads to the passage to the dining room and kitchen.

The dining room has a north end fireplace of red tiles, painted over, with tiling in the southeast corner backing onto the stair-hall fireplace. The drawing room is L-plan with a fireplace on the east wall, an exceptional piece featuring mottled green flat tiles with two tiny arched recesses and an inset panel of slightly embossed patterned tiles of Moorish inspiration. An oak ceiling beam spans the room. Beyond the stair hall lies a small study with a brown tile fireplace. The north end service rooms feature floors of orange Spanish floor tiles. The kitchen has a fireplace on the south wall and two small rooms to the east, the further being the rear porch with an original sink.

The first floor has a spine corridor with a two-sided plaster ceiling, main bedrooms at the north and south ends, and smaller rooms, bedrooms, and bathrooms opening off to the west. Doors throughout match, with shaped heads in the southeast Welsh tradition, featuring board doors with four cross slats and wrought iron hinges. The end bedrooms have fine semi-circular curved plaster ceilings. The north end room remains unaltered with a small tiled fireplace on the south wall. Along the corridor from north to south on the west side are a small bedroom, a bathroom, another small bedroom with a blocked opening into the bathroom, and one original door on the east side into a bathroom under the sloping roof. The south end room was originally L-plan with a rounded ceiling running full width at the south end and halved in the narrower north part, but has since been subdivided. It has a tiled fireplace on the east wall and a wall cupboard with wrought iron hinges.