Abbey-Cwm-Hir Hall is a neo-Elizabethan country house in the Welsh county of Powys. It was built in 1833 for Thomas Wilson on the site of a house built c.1656 for the Fowler family, which was later owned by the Hastings family, Earls of Huntingdon. Wilson’s house was extended and altered as a Victorian mansion of ashlar, decorated with polychromatic bands and elaborate bargeboards, by Poundley & Walker of Liverpool in 1867-69 for the Philips family. The house was doubled in size in 1869, and they added the snooker room in 1894.
Francis Philips (1771–1850) J.P., D.L., of Bank Hall, Lancashire (now Warrington Town Hall) purchased the Abbeycwmhir estate in 1837 which had fallen into a state of disrepair. He did much to improve the estate. His eldest son and heir, Francis Aspinall Philips (1793–1859), inherited both his father's estates and though he lived at Bank Hall, spent much time at Abbeycwmhir, becoming High Sheriff of Radnorshire. In turn, his eldest son succeeded to Bank Hall and it was F.A. Philips' younger son who inherited and lived at Abbeycwmhir, George Henry Philips (b.1831) J.P., D.L., of Radnorshire, who presumably sculpted the house as it is seen today.
The Philips were an old Staffordshire family who had held manors there since the reign of King Edward VI of England. Francis Philips' ancestors had been seated at Heath House in that county since the early seventeenth century, and it is still owned by the Philips family today. In the mid eighteenth century the family built the Tean Hall Mills and soon became well known as major cotton manufacturers in Manchester. Francis Philips was a first cousin once removed of Sir George Philips, 1st Baronet.
Paul and Victoria Humpherston bought the Hall in late 1997 and have spent the subsequent years restoring it. Their results have been featured on BBC "Discovering Welsh Houses" and "Wales Today", on ITV "Wales Tonight" and on S4C.