Having spent more than 4 years looking for an unmodernised smallholding in West Wales in January'08 we eventually found what we were looking for in Cardiganshire.

Initially our plans were to extend and modernise the house to make it a modern energy efficient family home. Then whilst surfing the web for ideas we came across a restoration that had been done using traditional building techniques and materials. There began a complete rethink of our plans.......

We started to do a bit of reasearch on the history of the place which took us back to the early 1800's. Much of the original building is unchanged from the rubble stone walls, slate roof, tiled floors, doors, windows and lime plastered walls.

Pantyrhwch is a modest cottage with two rooms downstairs and two upstairs linked by an unique staircase.

Over time the cottage aquired a single storey extension to the side and another (llaethdy) to the rear. There are indication of a traditional "shimle fawr" or big Chimney where there would have been an open hearth fireplace but at some point this was replaced with the fire grate and bread oven which is currently in place