Ty Bronna is a large detached house on St Fagan's Road in the

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suburb of Fairwater. It was designed by C. F. A. Voysey for Hastings Watson, a timber merchant, and built between 1903 and 1906. The house has been listed Grade II since May 1975. It is the only listed building designed by Voysey in Wales. 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

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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

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". The house is three storeys in height, capped by a hipped roof, battered buttresses rise from the ground to the eaves. It has a

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east window with a recessed veranda and was restored in 2002. Since 2001, the

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has provided accommodation at Ty Bronna for 16–21 year-olds who find themselves without a home and to support them towards independent living.

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* {{Commons category-inline, Ty Bronna Arts and Crafts architecture in Wales Grade II listed buildings in Cardiff Houses completed in 1906 Grade II listed houses in Wales Buildings by C.F.A. Voysey 1906 establishments in Wales