Built 1856 for John Naylor of Brynllywarch and Leighton Hall, to provide a reading room and community centre together with a dwelling for the village 'and adjoining district'. It became the Roman Catholic Church of St. Michael and St Brendan to serve the community of Italian prisoners of war, and was converted to a private house c. 1980.

A rock-faced ashlar building with freestone dressings. Slate roofs. Central gable with 3 tall lancets to the upper floor, 2 doors with Caernarfon heads and overlights placed symmetrically either side of a window on the ground floor, each with a gothic gabled canopy set on terracotta figured corbels. Spherical triangular vent in gable. Wings to each side; to left, the former police house, of 2 bays with windows in ashlar- quoined frames, flat label hood and brackets, and part-raised dormers to upper floor. The first of the 2 bays to right (N) is similar, the second has a large loop vent and JN monogram on a flush shield over. Yellow pots on gable stacks. Rear extension on the S wing. To the rear of the gabled front, a 2-storey brick extension with applied timber framing.

(Source: Cadw Listings database) S Garfi 21/9/06