Tegfan – before recent building work

Although Tegfan had a new roof, a new floor and a new front door in the 1960s and has recently had a new kitchen, bathrooms, roof lights and central heating, it remains, esentially a small, traditional Pembrokeshire cottage. Its walls are two feet thick, its original windows are small and its roof beams are roughly carved and massive.

There are a number of resources for anyone interested in finding out more about the housing of poor Pembrokeshire families in the nineteenth century.

• Penrhos cottage is a tiny ‘built-over-night’ house managed by the Pembrokeshire Museum Service. It is open by appointment.
• ‘Save the Last of the Magic : Traditional qualities of the West Wales Cottage’ by Martin Lewis whose web-site has many  examples of sensitive architectural conservation in West Wales.
• ‘The Welsh Cottage: Building Traditions of the Rural Poor, 1750-1900’ by Eurwyn William.

Further research should start at the Seaways bookshop on West Street in Fishguard.