Oak Cottage and Post Office

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NPRN19482
Map ReferenceSS87NE
Grid ReferenceSS8843077510
Unitary (Local) AuthorityBridgend
Old CountyGlamorgan
CommunityMerthyr Mawr
Type Of SiteHOUSE
PeriodPost Medieval
Description
Oak Cottage and Post Office is a 3-unit house built of local limestone, originally thatched. t is 18th century, possibly earlier, roughcast with stone stacks. The original main entrance retains a Tudor-arched dressed sand-stone doorway. Due to the division of this property, there is now a modern doorway serving the west units, possibly broken through the site of a window. At one time the end unit was in use as a Post Office (see also 'Holly Cottage and Post Office', Nprn: 19035, also at one time the village Post Office).

Reference: NMR site files; early postcard, dated c.1910.
RCAHMW, 2009.