Newton House

The land on which the house is built was first purchased by Einion Sais, the great-great-grandfather of Dafydd Gam, the first of his family to adopt the name Gam, meaning one-eyed or cross-eyed, following his distinguished service under King Edward III during the Hundred-Years-War; Sais would fight in the famous battles of Crecy (1346) and Poitiers (1356). Dafydd Gam himself remains a controversial figure in Wales, for his opposition to the Glyndwr uprising as he was a vocal ally to King Henry V. It would be his descendants who would rebuild Newton house in 1582, and they remained an influential family until the close of the 17th century. John Games I was the MP for Powys in 1545 (when he…

The house is a large, southward facing square-plan structure, three storeys tall with additional attic levels. The house has a pyramidal roof topped by a group of six large chimney stacks which was a later modification. The main interior feature is the great hall, a double height chamber to the south of the building, reached from the entrance hall. The great hall is a stone-flagged room with a raised dais and the large fireplace on the northern wall, the lintel of which bears the Games family crest above a genealogy connecting John Games to Dafydd Gam.