Historic houses · Mid Wales
Penoyre House
Penoyre House in Wales Mid, United Kingdom.
Chris Andrews — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
- Family-friendly
- Limited wheelchair access
About
Penoyre House is a place of interest in Wales Mid, 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=7483
From Cadw under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
Penoyre House, Battle, Powys, Wales is a nineteenth century country house. Designed by Anthony Salvin for Colonel John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins, it was built between 1846-8. In an Italianate style, it is described by Mark Girouard as "Salvin's most ambitious classical house". The enormous cost of the house almost bankrupted the family and it was sold only 3 years after Colonel Watkins's death. From 1947, the house was in institutional use, and was converted to apartments in the early twenty-first century. The building is Grade II* listed The gardens are listed Grade II on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
Background
History
John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins (1802–65) was a nineteenth century Welsh Liberal politician who sat Member of Parliament for Brecon. and was High Sheriff of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire. Watkins inherited a late eighteenth century house from his father, the Reverend Thomas Watkins, and engaged Salvin to undertake a complete rebuilding from 1846-8. The cost of the house alone was over £33,000 and Allibone records that Watkins was obliged to "close (it) and live cheaply in a local hotel." Only three years after his death in 1865, the house was sold. Privately owned from 1868 to 1947, the house was then used as a school, the clubhouse to a golf club, a nursing home, an hotel…
Architecture
The house is designed in an Italianate style, echoing Sir Charles Barry's Trentham Park and Thomas Cubitt's Osbourne House. Girouard calls it "Salvin's most ambitious classical house". It has a three-storey main block, a "colossal" entrance tower with a belvedere top, and a balancing conservatory wing which had a glass-domed roof, although this was replaced in 1899.
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 51.9693, -3.4321
- District
- Powys
- Parish
- Yscir
- Postcode
- LD3 9PD
- Parliamentary constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe
- Established
- 1848
Sources
- wikidata: Q17743241 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Penoyre House (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Penoyre House?
- Penoyre House is in Mid Wales, United Kingdom (postcode LD3 9PD), in the parish of Yscir.
- When was Penoyre House built?
- Built or established in 1848.
- Who owns Penoyre House?
- Penoyre House is owned by | current_tenants =.
- Is Penoyre House a listed building?
- Penoyre House is officially recognised as II* listed.
- How do I get to Penoyre House?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode LD3 9PD. It sits within the Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe parliamentary constituency.