TYN-YR-HEOL, Tonna, Neath Port Talbot 2019

TYN-YR-HEOL, Tonna, Neath Port Talbot 2019 - THE GLAMORGANS (Including Neath Port Talbot, Gower, Vale of Glamorgan)
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A re-visit – the first visit was in 2012 – when access was simply walking through the empty gateway and up the driveway. The entrances have since been boarded up and fefnced off but the wall around the house is not high and can be climbed with ease. My daughter and I jumped up and over. The house, I saw online, is currently set to be auctioned in June 2019 with a start price of £85,000. The house is Grade 2 listed and is, in all purposes, a complete unsalvageable ruin. The façade has almost totally collapsed since 2012, the semi-circle porch laying within the nettle and bramble – speaking of which the brambles almost cover the whole area making most of the house inaccessible and unpleasant to even try to navigate. Inside is a mess of rubble and beams and I wondered since it is Grade 2 listed what can be hoped to be achieved by the next owner of such a house. Again, it has come onto the market far, far too late. There is a lot of land here though and I am certain a developer can make good use of it. Would I be sad to see Tynyrheol demolished? Probably not. Old photographs show a lovely proportioned house without the odd brick extension.
A fox hissed at me whilst treading through the undergrowth around the rear of the house, three or four fox cubs stumbled over each other to escape me. They were gone in an instant and I didn’t see them again. Once again, as in 2012, viewpoints were difficult to come by, restricted by the bramble. I tore my coat but didn’t care. Some bramble tore my skin, barely a graze. I trample through the bramble hoping to improve upon the 2012 pictures. I reach a few yards and then set up the camera. Nothing is ever perfect. The sun is too low directly in view. A tree is standing exactly where I wish to place the tripod. These are complaints but are not really complaints. I’ve learnt to accept a site as I find it, make best wit what I am offered, be satisfied with myself that I came here, took out the camera and documented whatever it is I’ve come to visit.

TYN-YR-HEOL, Tonna, Neath Port Talbot 2019

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