Bedwellty House
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Bedwellty House is a Grade2 listed house and gardens in Tredegar, in the Welsh Valleys.
Originally a ”low thatched-roof cottage,” the old house was renovated in 1809]]. The present Bedwellty House was built in 1818 as a home for Samuel Homfrey, whose Iron and Coal Works were the main local employers for much of the 19th century.[1]
The surrounding 26 acre Victorian garden and park, designed originally as a Dutch garden around which one could walk or ride without being confronted by gate, fence or outside features; contains the Long Shelter, a Grade2 listed structure built for the Charterist movement.[2]
Visitors today can also see the Edwardian bandstand, gazebo, duck ponds, and the world famous lump of coal – 15 tons hewn in a single block for the great exhibition in 1851.[3] In March 2007, the Heritage Lottery Fund earmarked £3.6m to finance development of the site to help make it the focus of the community.
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