Ton Farm Cottage

Ton Farm and Ton Farm Cottage Originally a small single-unit house of c1600 (now Ton Farm Cottage) to which 2 futher units were added in the C17 (now Ton Farm). The house was part of the Merthyr Mawr Estate, which was purchased in 1804 by Sir John Nicholl. Nicholl subsequently enlarged the houses in the village, often dividing them into 2 or more dwellings. At Ton Farm (known as Warren Farm in the C19) a further wing was added (Ton Farm Cottage), and the house was divided into 2 dwellings C20.

A pair of 2-storey houses of whitewashed rubble stone walls, slate roof and stacks L of centre and at L and R ends. Skylights to rear slope of Ton Farm Cottage. Ton Farm to the L has a boarded door to R and 3 casement windows to its L, all renewed in earlier openings, the window R of centre having formerly been a doorway. In the upper storey it has 2 similar casements beneath the eaves. To the R of centre is Ton Farm Cottage with 2 casements in the lower storey and a single casement in the upper. The unit to R is the C19 addition and is set back, with a half-lit door and casement in the lower storey under segmental heads, and 2 similar casements above. In the L gable end Ton Farm has stub walls of a former attached building (possibly a beast house). At the rear is a shallow stair projection and a lower 2-storey gabled projection added late C19 with windows similar to main house. Behind and to R of Ton Farm Cottage are lately added lean-tos.

In the rear wall is a blocked Tudor-headed doorway to the stair, housed in a projection which survives inside a lately added lean-to. The stairway has stone treads, a small stair light and a cross-slab roof. The roof of the house retains a central truss with curved-foot principals.