Church Cottage is early Victorian, modestly Gothic, and made of Cilgerran slate. It was also the first Landmark acquired in 1965. The church itself, which was rebuilt in 1857 by R.J. Withers, a prolific architect and committed Ecclesiologist, was demolished in 2000, but its footprint and font remain, as does the churchyard. Our cottage was for the caretaker; it stands in a small village east of Cardigan, in a hilly, well-wooded countryside of small farms. It is also the first building we ever tackled.

Though less than a mile from the main Newcastle Emlyn to Cardigan road, Llandygwydd is quiet, although there is a small road between the cottage and the church. Plays in Cardigan are recommended; so are the coracle races on the Teifi. The south sweep of Cardigan Bay is less than ten miles away; however, the point of Church Cottage is not to dash about, but simply to be there, in this distant and unremarkable part of Wales, and feel what it is like.

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