Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cwm Cottage
Margam, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Margam, Port Talbot, Neath Port Talbot, designated on 24 February 1975.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 24 February 1975
- Locality
- Margam
- Town
- Port Talbot
- Community
- Margam
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.56109, -3.73464
- Cadw reference
- 14165
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1885 · OS One-Inch (Hills) 1885-1903 (National Library of Scotland)
- 1930 · OS Popular Edition 1919-1947 (National Library of Scotland)
Cadw's description
Location
On a track which runs R (close to A48 junction) off the lane to the abbey church. The track was formerly a road running along the S side of Margam Park, but is now a cul-de-sac.
History
Shown on a survey of the Margam estate of 1814. Formerly had a thatched roof.
Exterior
Three-window 2-storey cottage facing S. Constructed of roughcast rubble stone under a C20 tiled roof with rendered end stacks. Irregularly spaced 2-light multi-pane wooden casement windows in rendered surrounds, with keystones to lower storey. Flat-headed planked door to L of centre flanked by windows. Further window to R. The windows to the upper storey are under shallow eye-brow dormer heads. Below the central window is a small date-stone reading: H / EM / 1693.
Late C20 2-window extension to L end with further end stack. Similar windows and eye-brow dormers. Half-lit French doors in W gable end with side lights, offset to R of the stack. The rear elevation of the house has 4 late C20 wooden windows to the ground floor and 3 raked half-dormers to the upper storey with 2-light casement windows. The extension to the R is 2-window with a planked door to the L. It appears to incorporate part of an earlier single-storey structure of brick and stone.
Interior
No access to interior at time of inspection (7/7/99).
Reason for designation
Listed for its early date and association with Margam Park. Group value with surrounding buildings and structures.
Nearby in the register
- Margam CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ornamental PoolGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Former Changing RoomGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- 2 Grove CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.