Margam Cottage

Three-window 2-storey symmetrical front with central doorway facing S. Roughcast with a slate-covered roof, hipped to L end where there is a short rear wing. Projecting brick stack to R end and ridge stack to rear wing. Panelled front door under a hipped swept lead-covered porch supported on narrow piers. Flanked by paired 4-pane horned sashes with flat heads and stone sills. The upper storey has 6-over-6-pane horned sashes, the central window being smaller. Two sky-lights to roof. The W side of the rear wing has a half-lit conservatory under a hipped slate-covered roof. Half-lit double doors to R of centre, flanked by continuous glazing with large panes, the top row with segmental heads. Small horizontally-hung window to L in upper storey. The rear of the house is of rubble stone. It has a single-storey lean-to with two 2-light casements, both C20. That to the R appears to have replaced a door, with a further blocked door to the R. Small light in E end of lean-to. The E side of the rear wing has a catslide roof which meets the lean-to at right angles. Both the rear roof pitch of the main range and the catslide section have shallow raked dormers.

A later range links the rear wing of the house with a former outbuilding. Half hipped roof to N (rear) end and lower ridge line. Three-window 2-storey W side, with canopy over recessed lower storey windows. The E wall has a large raked 2-window dormer and 3 full-height glazed openings at ground level.

The former outbuilding is of rubble stone with a shallow hipped slate-covered roof. Single storey with loft, entered through a planked door in centre of E side, approached by concrete steps with brick facing wall. To R is a former cart-shed opening with wide segmental head, now infilled and with a planked door and window. To the L side is a 2-light multi-pane wooden casement under a segmental brick head. Two windows to loft rising to eaves, both 2-light casements. A ledge and a row of brick-lined nesting boxes for doves extends across the upper level of the N wall and wraps round the E wall. Large raked buttress at E end of N wall. The W side has 2 windows under segmental heads to the ground floor and 3 loft windows, as on E side. There is a butt joint to the R with quoins, while the 2 ground floor windows appear to have been doors originally, perhaps relating to stables.

Interior modernised; central hall with staircase to rear and round to L. Outbuilding is open-plan with C19 roof structure of wide span pegged with nails. Flagstones to lower storey.