Cottage

Clun Cottage will be open as part of the CADW – Open doors event on Saturday 14th September 2024 11.00am – 4.00pm. https://cadw.gov.wales/open-doors-2-clun-cottages-henllan-amgoed
We are working a time slot booking system – please message or email us if you’d like to visit us on the 14th September.

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Clun (pronounced clean) is a Grade 2 listed clom cottage with a thatch roof covered with red oxide wrinkly tin.  It is a rare and well-preserved vernacular dwelling of simple design of a distinctive regional type. It is furnished with local vernacular furniture of the period.

The cottage was first recorded in a tithe map of 1888 and was not present on an earlier version from 1840’s but Clun is mentioned in the census of 1841.   It possibly dates from early 19th century built as a pair of agricultural labourers dwellings.  They were built with their backs to the road which allowed the front elevation and grounds to benefit from the south west position.  The walls are built from clom or turf with later buttresses.  Internally there is are two rooms, a parlour and ‘gegin fach’/kitchen either side of a small entrance hall painted in red oxide paint.   Above a room extends the length of the building accessed from a ladder via a small room to the rear of the hall.

Once a common sight throughout Carmarthenshire and west Wales, Clun cottage is now a rare survivor. It was inhabited by the Nicholas family who moved to Clun in 1955 raising four sons who were and still are known as ‘bois y Clun/the Clun boys.

A separate corrugated tin utility building houses was built alongside in 2022 to house a kitchen/gegin fawr, shower room and loos. There is also a small tin shed shed and more sheds to follow.

The cottage is furnished with pieces of the period and originating from Carmarthenshire/Pembrokeshire borders.

The surrounding land is bordered with banked hedges which also form part of the listing.  There is evidence of previous small buildings with limewashed stone and pieces of slate. The garden is now given over to encouraging wildlife.  The recent addition of a pond with both pond plants and marginals which encourage moths and bats.  Weeds and indigenous plants are encouraged.  Welsh heritage apple trees have been planted and this year a Welsh plum tree will be added.  The hedge has been traditionally layed and some additional dog roses, hawthorn, blackthorn, elder and bird cherry to fill some gaps.  The old stone and slate have been made into simple benches which offer the sitter different views of the cottage and its surroundings.

Available as film and photo shoot location.