About Tŷ'n Cellar Farm Cottages
Brief History and Background
Tyn Cellar Farm is grade II listed. Records show that the farm dates back to the 1300’s when it was built by the Cistern Monks as part of Margam Abbey. The owners have the history of all the tenants who have lived and worked the farm since 1536. This dates back to the dissolution of the Abbey’s, by Henry 8th. The word Tyn Cellar means “The house of the Cellar man”. He would have been second in command at the Abbey and his job was to buy and sell all the goods and labour that the Abbey needed. It is thought that Tyn Cellar was used to store wool leaving the Abbey (a very valuable commodity in the 13th and 14th century) to be shipped to Somerset for processing.
It 1830 the farm was given a major make over by the then owners of Margam estates and all the dressed stonework and tiled roof are original from that period. This is the only farm that the estate did due to the cost. The current owners have been very careful and diligent with the conversion and refurbishment of the B&B and cottages to keep as much of the original character as possible. Hence all the walls are lime plastered by hand, lime mortar used to rebuild doorways and stonework, and all timber used where possible was recycled from one building to the next or sourced locally second hand.
The pine floors in the B&B Barn came from the Victorian engine sheds at Wern Tarw Colliery in Pencoed. The oak flooring in most of the cottages from a school in St Mellons, Cardiff and it is stamped Japan 1948. The maple flooring came from Archbishop Mcgrath School in Ynysadwre during a rebuild.
The current owners bought Tyn Cellar Farmhouse in 2003. They initially got the B&B Barn up and running from an empty shell in 2010 and then developed the derelict barns into self-catering holiday cottages after they were purchased in 2015.
The owners are proud that they are all four-star rated with the Welsh Tourist board.
They use a Biomass boiler that provides all the hot water and heating for the whole site. This is considered carbon neutral as it burns wood pellets.
We are ten minutes away from Porthcawl and its blue flag beaches and surfing school.
