TY BRONNA.
St Fagan's Road, Fairwater,
on
the outskirts of Cardiff,
South Glamorgan, Wales.
1903
For W. Hastings Watson.
Stables 1904.
Alterations since Voysey's time.
RIBA Drawings Collection
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Ty Bronna, House near Cardiff, Perspective, RIBA Drawings Collection
Ty Bronna, House near Cardiff, Plans, RIBA Drawings Collection
RIBA Drawings Collection
Ty Bronna, Saint Fagan's, Glamorgan, Wales, Photo Courtauld Institute of Art
Photo Courtauld Institute of Art
Photo by living room on flickr
Photo by living room on flickr
Photo by locus imagination on flickr
Ty Bronna, photo by No Swan So Fine on Wikipedia
Ty Bronna, photo by No Swan So Fine on Wikipedia
Ty Bronna, photo by No Swan So Fine on Wikipedia
Photo by living room on flickr
Photo by locus imagination on flickr
Photo by living room on flickr
Photo by locus imagination on flickr
Photo Courtauld Institute of Art
Ty Bronna, photo by No Swan So Fine on Wikipedia
Ty Bronna, photo by living room on flickr
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Ty Bronna,
stable block (1904), photo by living_room on flickr
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Design for Ty-Bronna, St Fagan's Road, Fairwater, Cardiff, for Hastings Watson:
plan, elevations and section of the stable block
(design II)
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The entry in Pevsner's Glamorgan (by John Newman, 1995) reads:
Fairwater. TY BRONNA, St Fagans Road, 1m W. (headquarters of the South Glamorgan Ambulance Service). This is real Voysey, with all his personal traits. Designed, for Hastings Watson, in 1903, with finishing touches extending to 1906. First to catch the eye is the STABLE BLOCK of 1904, built close to the road. Clean white outline, gables at each end, with battered angle buttresses. The house stands higher up the hillside among trees. Voysey exploited the slope by placing the entrance at the short W end, so that he could open up a five-arched veranda almost the full width of the S front, which faced the view over the valley of the River Ely. Two full storeys above that and an all-embracing hipped roof. At the angles battered buttresses from ground to eaves. The staircase immediately inside the front door is denoted by vertically proportioned windows, and one oeil-de-boeuf. The principal rooms are towards the E, the drawing room lit by a long, low window within the recessed veranda, and given a bowed E window and an oeil-de-boeuf to the S. The exterior has been spoilt by the infilling of the veranda arches and a crude balcony parapet. Inside, the typical timber STAIRCASE survives, rising immediately beyond the front door. Semicircular arch at its head, opening into a long, generously glazed vestibule with original fireplace. Floors of slate.
Source: Pevsner Architectural Guides at Yale University Press.
Ty
Bronna, Cardiff Ty Bronna is a Grade II* listed building on the outskirts of
Cardiff. It was built in 1903–06 for Hastings Watson and was the only house in Wales designed by C. F. A.Voysey, the important and influential domestic architect. The architect’s original designs
survive. There are some differences between these and the completed building. The house has three storeys and is clad in roughcast
render with ashlar stone surrounds framing intricate steel casement
windows. The house was converted for hospital and then ambulance service use in the mid-twentieth century but when it first came before
the Council in 1998 it was unoccupied and derelict and had suffered from theft and vandalism. Subsequently it was damaged by a fire, but the view was taken that it was still possible to repair and
restore the building. Recognizing its importance, the Council recommended grant for emergency works to protect the building from the elements while a scheme of restoration was prepared. Further grant to the
owners, the Cadwyn Housing Association, facilitated the restoration of
the property. The works have now been completed and the result is an important building once more being used for housing.
Source: www.cadw.wales.gov.uk
Forty-Seventh Annual Report 2002–03
References:
W. Shaw Sparrow
(ed,),
The Modern Home, 1906, p.55.
David
Cole, The Art and
architecture of CFA Voysey : English pioneer
modernist architect & designer,
2015.
Frederick R. G. Hughes, Ty Bronna - Voysey's only Welsh house?, The Orchard,
Number Twelve, Autumn 2023, pp.6-22.
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