Newton House is owned and maintained by the National Trust, and is situated in Dinefwr Park, also known as Dynefor Park. Within the grounds are the remains of Dinefwr Castle, which is maintained by Cadw. It lies close to the centre of the market town of Llandeilo in Carmarthenshire, South Wales.
It was formerly the main residence of the family of the Rice (Rhys) family, elevated to the English peerage as Baron (Lord) Dynevor.[1] The residence had been restored to what it would have been as an estate house of the later Victorian era into the early Edwardian period.
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It is surrounded by a deer park which was landscaped by Capability Brown. A small garden behind the house has been restored to its former glory, and overlooks the deer park. The garden is styled under Moorish influence with a central fountain surrounded by walks. It helps to soften the rather severe Gothic style of the building (which itself owes its present style to a Victorian restoration of an earlier Georgian house). As a supposedly paranormally active building, the property will be the subject of an investigation in the forthcoming 11th series of the Most Haunted programme.