The mining company did not build this house. Dr Cohen who originally intended to build his new surgery there owned the block of land. However he moved his surgery to Swansea and built a house at Belmont Bay.
Dr Morris Cohen bought the land in 1959 for 50 pounds. As he had moved to Belmont he did not need the land and came home from a Rotary meeting in 1964 pleased to have made a deal with the fellow who sat next to him at the dinner. He would sell the block for the 50 pounds that he paid plus the unpaid back rates and taxes. Unknowingly he had sold to a Real Estate agent, a Mr Harold Llewellyn John of Hamilton Real Estate.
The land was sold to Val and Neville D’Arcy who was from Slack Alley in 1969. They owned the land for 10 years before building. They built a new two-story house on the land in 1979. Neville, who worked in the mine, died in the late 1990s and they had no children. However, Mrs D’Arcy has a daughter Julie from a previous marriage who sold the house.
The house was extensively renovated in 2016/17