Gardens · South Wales
Llwyn-y-gaer House
Llwyn-y-gaer House — a garden in wales-south, United Kingdom.
Jonathan Billinger — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2.5 h
- Best time of year
- Spring & summer (Apr–Sep)
- Dog-friendly
About
Llwyn-y-gaer House is a garden of interest in wales-south, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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Heritage listing
http://cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net/reports/listedbuilding/FullReport?lang=en&id=2062
From Cadw under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
Llwyn-y-gaer House, Tregare, Monmouthshire is a farmhouse dating from the mid 17th century, although with earlier origins. Described by John Newman as "one of the largest and finest Monmouthshire farmhouses of its period", the house is Grade II* listed.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
Background
History
The origins of the house are medieval, evidenced by its moated site, but nothing remains of the medieval structure. The name translates as "grove of the fortress". The present building dates from two periods, of around 1630 and 1670. Sir Cyril Fox and Lord Raglan, in the third of their three-volume study, Monmouthshire Houses, describe Llwyn-y-gaer as "important" and include a photograph of an ovolo mullioned window. The house was modernised in 1944 but reduced in size, including the removal of the porch, in further renovations in the 1950s. It remains privately owned.
Architecture
The house is of two storeys and is constructed of Old Red Sandstone rubble. It is built to an L-plan. The interior has rooms with "impressive" period decoration, particularly the plaster ceilings and fire mantels. Cadw notes the similarity between the plasterwork and that found at The Artha, Tregare. Llwyn-y-gaer is a Grade II* listed structure.
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 51.7955, -2.8647
- District
- Monmouthshire
- Parish
- Mitchel Troy
- Postcode
- NP15 2DL
- Parliamentary constituency
- Monmouthshire
Sources
- wikidata: Q17744267 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Llwyn-y-gaer House, Tregare (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Llwyn-y-gaer House?
- Llwyn-y-gaer House is in South Wales, United Kingdom (postcode NP15 2DL), in the parish of Mitchel Troy.
- Who owns Llwyn-y-gaer House?
- Llwyn-y-gaer House is owned by Privately owned.
- Is Llwyn-y-gaer House a listed building?
- Llwyn-y-gaer House is officially recognised as II* listed.
- How do I get to Llwyn-y-gaer House?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode NP15 2DL. It sits within the Monmouthshire parliamentary constituency.