Your giving your age away, and yes i can remember one of my previous homes in South Wales.
It was a very large Victorian vicarage just outside Cardiff, approaching Ely.
The church had closed long ago, so the vicarage was up for grabs.
Being such a large house, it was bitterly cold, and i can remember some of the winters of the early 1980s, where my breath remained in the air in the upper bedrooms far too long for comfort.
You feet would get very cold extremely quickly if you decided to have a read, and due to the height of the ceilings and size of some of the rooms, the heating took an age to respond.
I can occasionally remember it iceing up on the inside of the bedroom windows once or twice, that thankfully is a memory of the past, a rather fun one, when your still young, but its true, living in such a cold home, one rarely got a cold or became ill.
Summers were fine, but those winters, oh yes, it was pretty cold, but you got sort of acclimatised to it eventually.
How many here had to sleep inside a sleeping bag, with another double duvet just to keep warm.
Dyffryn is like living in the tropics compared to my old home near Cardiff.
We sold it back in 1993, and moved to Cyncoed, and i think someone either developed it into several flats, or demolished it, ive never been back to check.