Llanarth Court
| Llanarth Court | |
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| General information | |
| Town or city | Llanarth |
| Country |
 Wales |
| 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 is a late-18th-century country house with substantial 19th-century alterations in Llanarth, 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] It is now a private hospital.
History
The first house recorded on the property goes back to the early medieval period and was called Hendreobaith. It came into the possession of ancestors of the Jones family well before 1469. The family rebuilt the house as Llanarth Court in the seventeenth century. The current house was originally built around 1770 and was remodelled 1849–51 by Edward Habershon and his brother, W. G. Habershon, in the Italianate style. Llanarth Court was given to the Roman Catholic Church in 1948 and served as a Benedictine school until it was closed around 1990 and later sold for conversion into a private hospital.[2]
Description
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 Habershons' work included 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]
Notes
References
- Newman, John (2000). Gwent/Monmouthshire. The Buildings of Wales. Penguin. ISBN 0-14-071053-1.