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Caradoc Cottage

Caradoc Cottage, locally known as Top End, is one of the older houses in the historic village of Llancarfan. It stands close to the Nant Llancarfan Brook, in the area around Cross Green. Historic landscape research records Caradoc Cottage on the 1840 tithe map, placing it firmly within the established settlement of the village by the early Victorian period. Its position near the former ford and footbridge across the brook reflects the traditional pattern of houses, lanes, smallholdings and irregular fields that developed around Llancarfan over many centuries.

The cottage also has a strong connection with the more recent social history of Llancarfan. During the 20th century it was associated particularly with the Griffiths family and was known locally as Top End. Mary Griffiths moved there after her marriage in 1939, sharing the house with the family, and later accounts recall the Griffiths family living there as a smallholding.

The cottage's name, Caradoc, is especially appropriate in Llancarfan, a village strongly associated with Caradog of Llancarfan, the 12th-century Welsh cleric and historian. Caradog is traditionally associated with the Life of St Gildas and Life of St Cadog, and his name is an important part of the village's medieval heritage.

Caradoc Cottage was demolished and a modern house, Primrose Cottage, now stands in it's original position.