Dylan Thomas House Self Catering

5 Cwmdonkin Drive has been carefully restored over the past three years to its condition when bought as a new house by the Thomas family in 1914 just a few months before Dylan Marlais Thomas was born in the front bedroom. This is a brief description of the rooms in the house - follow the links for more information. If you would like to stay at the house then check our rates and contact us for availability First Floor Front (best) Bedroom For most of the twenty three years that the Thomas family lived at 5 Cwmdonkin Drive the front bedroom was kept for 'best'. It was the show room of the first floor with views out to Cwmdonkin Park and it was where young Dylan first drew breath Nancy's Bedroom Dylan's sister was eight years old when he was born and later she was described as an attractive. outgoing young lady who had ambitions as an actress. Bathroom and WC An inside toilet was almost unheard of in Victorian times - the Thomas family even moved from a house in Sketty because there was no drainage - so having a separate inside WC must have been considered very 'posh' for the upwardly mobile family. In the separate bathroom Dylan watched his cigarette ash float on the steamy water Dylan's Bedroom The tiny room was next to the airing cupboard with the '...gurgling pipes...' is where Dylan lived for most of his twenty odd years at Number 5. The gas light is still working DJ and Florrie's Bedroom The back bedroom was where Dylan's parents slept except when they had taken in a lodger. The back of the house was the warmest part and the bedroom was over the kitchen where the range was kept burning most of the time. Ground Floor The Front This is the porch at the front of the house. Dylan said later that, as a small boy, he could never understand why so many young men never returned from 'The Front' Parlour or Lounge (The best room) In some Welsh houses the best room was kept locked except when used for special occasions. One of these would have been Christmas at Number 5 with snoring uncles and singing aunts tipsy after sipping the parsnip wine DJ's Study This was a very male room where DJ retired to mark his school books and read from the classics. The young Dylan was obviously impressed from what he saw and heard Living Room This was part of Florrie's world where the family met to eat and converse Kitchen Florrie cooked twice a day with the help of a daily maid and a Monday maid to help with the washing. Off the kitchen is the pantry or larder where food was kept cool and the scullery with its deep sink and storage for every day crockery and the pots and pans Outside Washroom The Monday maid used to boil the water here and transfer it to the scullery where the washing was done - with no tumble drier clothes were dried on the clothesline of from the Aunt Sally above the range in the kitchen before being transferred to the airing cupboard Coal House Coal was used for heating the kitchen range as well as the fires in other rooms. To keep the fires going was the job of the maid. Later some rooms had gas fires - the was gas and electricity in the house when it was built

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