Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Cottage
Merthyr Mawr, Bridgend, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 26 July 1963
- Locality
- Merthyr Mawr
- Community
- Merthyr Mawr
- Unitary authority
- Bridgend
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.48563, -3.60821
- Cadw reference
- 21238
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Approximately 100m E of parish church and set back from the main road through the village. The house is at the uphill end of a group with Oak Cottage.
Interior
Modernised internally.
Reason for designation
Oak Cottage and The Cottage form a pair of C19 estate cottages with interesting earlier origins, and for group value with other estate buildings in Merthyr Mawr.
Nearby in the register
- Oak CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Diana CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- WellingtoniaDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.