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Another missionary wrote of “houses tenanted only by the corpses of their former occupants, and dead bodies lying unburied on the snow.”

He said: "The LGA continues to work with professional bodies, as well as the government, to discuss possible solutions on improving housing standards - including those relating to damp and mould in tenanted properties."

"Where we could do between 20 and 30 viewing of a property in a day, we are now doing four where the home is still tenanted," he said.

A stranger with a flair for cocktail-party descriptive prose might have commented that the room, at a quick glance, looked as if it had once been tenanted by two struggling twelve-year-old lawyers or researchists.

By the mid-1600s it had become a tenanted farm house and stayed that way until it was bought in 1979 by the then Rhymney Valley District Council, who decided to turn it into a museum.