Ty Bronna

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Ty Bronna
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TypeHouse
Location Cardiff
Coordinates 51°29′23″N3°15′15″W / 51.4897°N 3.2541°W / 51.4897; -3.2541
Built1903-6
Architect C. F. A. Voysey
Architectural style(s) Arts and Crafts
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameTy Bronna
Designated19 May 1975;49 years ago (1975-05-19) 19/05/1975
Reference no.13790 [1]
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameFormer Stables at Ty Bronna
Designated19 May 1975;49 years ago (1975-05-19) 19/05/1975
Reference no.13791 [2]
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Location of Ty Bronna in Cardiff
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Stables to Ty Bronna

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. [3] [1] [4] The house has been listed Grade II since May 1975. It is the only listed building designed by Voysey in Wales. [1] [5]

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. [6] 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 three 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. [7] [3]

Since 2001, the Church Army has provided accommodation at Ty Bronna for 16–21 year-olds who find themselves without a home and to support them towards independent living. [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Cadw. "Ty Bronna (Grade II) (13790)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
  2. Cadw. "Former Stables at Ty Bronna (Grade II) (13791)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
  3. 1 2 "Ty Bronna, Fairwater (141)". Coflein. RCAHMW . Retrieved 30 September 2021.
  4. Nursing Mirror and Midwives Journal. IPC Specialist and Professional Press. 1976. p. 12.
  5. "Newman" (1995), 289–90 &pl.
  6. Cadw. "Former Stables at Ty Bronna (13791)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
  7. Restoration by Willis Construction for the Church Army
  8. "CA Ty Bronna". Church Army . Retrieved 17 November 2024.