Ty Bronna Explained

Ty Bronna
Type:House
Map Relief:yes
Coordinates:51.4897°N -3.2541°W
Location:Cardiff
Built:1903-6
Architect:C. F. A. Voysey
Architecture:Arts and Crafts
Designation1:Grade II
Designation1 Offname:Ty Bronna
Designation1 Date: 19/05/1975
Designation1 Number:13790
Designation2:Grade II
Designation2 Offname:Former Stables at Ty Bronna
Designation2 Date: 19/05/1975
Designation2 Number:13791

Ty Bronna is a large detached house on St Fagan's Road in the Cardiff suburb of Fairwater. It was designed by C. F. A. Voysey for Hastings Watson, a timber merchant, and built between 1903 and 1906.[1] The house has been listed Grade II since May 1975. It is the only listed building designed by Voysey in Wales.[2]

The house sits on a hillside surrounded by trees above the St Fagans Road, the former stables to the south of the house were also designed by Voysey, built in 1904, and are Grade II listed. The RCAHMW report on Ty Bronna praises Voysey as having "...exploited the slope by placing the entrance at the short west end so that he could open up a five-arched veranda almost the full width of the south front which faced the view over the valley of the River Ely". The house is 3 storeys in height, capped by a hipped roof, battered buttresses rise from the ground to the eaves. It has a bowed east window with a recessed veranda and was restored in 2002.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Nursing Mirror and Midwives Journal. 1976. IPC Specialist and Professional Press. 12.
  2. "Newman" (1995), 289–90 &pl.
  3. Restoration by Willis Construction for the Church Army https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnrw/3631486069