Project Journal

A sense of history

Hannah Lloyd explains how she and husband Dan transformed their uninhabitable shell into the perfect home for their family, in just six months

Tell us about the history of your home? Built in 1826, Bryncoch had only been home to four families before we bought it in January 2018. The house is right in the heart of the community. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, it was owned by a man called Reverend Edward Roberts, who donated much of the land surrounding the house. There is a primary school next door and a row of miners’ cottages opposite, all built on land that was originally part of Bryncoch. It is really nice to know that we’ve bought a part of history and have been given the chance to bring the house back to life again.