Cottage attached to Bryn Elim

This is a two-storey cottage attached to Bryn Elim, No 52, on the right and No 49 on the left. The cottage is built of whitewashed rubble stone and features a corrugated iron roof with a very small brick stack at the left end. Each floor has two tiny square windows with single slab lintels and 4-pane casements, along with a central door. The rear wall is also made of rubble stone. The cottage has been owned by the family of the current owners since the early 20th century, with the grandfather having worked as a miner at the Craig-cefn-parc colliery.

Inside, the ground floor includes a fireplace at the south end, supported by four rough halved joists. The fireplace features a late 19th-century grate marked Jones, Clydach, and there is a bread oven in the wall to the left of the fireplace, complete with an iron lintel. To the right of the fireplace, there is a recess at ground level with an iron lintel, which may have been used for drying boots. The front wall has a small recess to the right of the right window. The window reveals are longer than the windows themselves and have a narrow sill at the bottom. To the right of the fireplace, there is a door leading to a very narrow stone winding stair with about eight steps leading to the loft. The loft features thin collar-trusses supporting a roof made of pegged halved rough timbers.