Jacqueline’s Cottage, Wales

Jacqueline’s Cottage is an abandoned stone house in Wales. This lonely cottage has stood empty for decades; a once-beloved home is falling into ruin. The windows are slowly surrendering to ever-encroaching ivy, the roof buckles in desperate need of maintenance.

Inside there are sparse personal items; fragments left behind are gathering dust as the building succumbs to decades of dereliction.

Inside An Abandoned Welsh Cottage, Frozen In Time

The cottage reflects a simple life, consisting of four rooms on a single level. It follows typical local Welsh design, constructed from local stone with thick walls, and almost every room has a fireplace.

In the kitchen, a rusted hearth remains the central feature. Two metal teapots still sit on top of the stove. The rear room is small, largely empty apart from a pair of shoes left on a stool. A side room has stone walls without plaster. This room has a fireplace and a long stone counter, with an old milk churn underneath.

The living room contains a collection of items in what is a largely empty cottage. An Art Deco Regel wind-up clock sits atop the fireplace, next to some old bottles. On the chair is a vintage George Philip & Sons map book. I opened the book for some detailed photos before closing and returning it to its former place. To the right side of the fireplace stands a vintage Hoover floor polisher and cleaner from the 1960s. The living room window has more broken panes than intact ones. Strands of ivy have worked their way inside and wound their way around a chipped jug on the sill.

The house has retro Bakelite light switches still in place. This material was the most common “art plastic” in UK homes from the 1930s to the 1950s. It was generally replaced by more modern plastics in the 1960s, suggesting this home hasn’t been modernised for 85 years!

Jacqueline’s Cottage – What became of Jacqueline?

Sadly, information regarding the history of the house and its occupants is limited. An old book carries the name “Jacqueline Davies”. It is challenging to guess when this place was abandoned, as nothing inside provides a definite date. The most modern item found in the house is a Hoover from the 1960s. My guess is that perhaps Jacqueline left in the 1980s or 1990s. What became of her? we may never know.