Llanarth Court

Llanarth Court
General information
Town or city Llanarth
Country United Kingdom United Kingdom
Coordinates 51°47′22″N 2°53′58″W / 51.7894°N 2.8995°WCoordinates: 51°47′22″N 2°53′58″W / 51.7894°N 2.8995°W

Llanarth Court, Llanarth, is a late-18th-century country house with substantial 19th-century alterations in Monmouthshire, Wales. The court was built for the Jones family of Treowen,[1] Monmouthshire and was subsequently the home of Ivor Herbert, 1st Baron Treowen, whose family still owns much of the Llanarth estate, although not the court itself. The court is a Grade II* listed building as of 5 June 1952.[2]

The court is a "monster Neo-classical house",[1] consisting of a three-storey, double pile block of thirteen bays. The entrance porch, reputedly modelled on the temple at Paestum,[1] has been removed. The court was substantially re-built in 1849–50 for the Herbert family by W. G. and E. Habershon,[1] including the rendering and much classical decoration. The interior has been modernised and institutionalised and contains "little of either the later eighteenth or the mid-nineteenth centuries".[3] It used to contain the original hall screen from Treowen, but, writing in 1999, Newman stated that the screen "is likely to be returned thither".[3] The court is now a private hospital.

The gatehouse to the court

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 The Buildings of Wales: Gwent/Monmouthshire, page 264
  2. ↑ Good Stuff IT Services (1952-06-05). "Llanarth Court - Llanarth - Monmouthshire - Wales". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 2012-02-12.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Buildings of Wales: Gwent/Monmouthshire, page 265

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