Penoyre House

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Penoyre House
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Penoyre House
General information
Type Country house
Architectural style Italianate
Town or city Battle, Powys
Country Wales
Coordinates 51°58′08″N3°25′51″W / 51.9689°N 3.4309°W / 51.9689; -3.4309 Coordinates: 51°58′08″N3°25′51″W / 51.9689°N 3.4309°W / 51.9689; -3.4309
Construction started1846
Completed1848
Client John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins
Design and construction
Architect(s) Anthony Salvin
DesignationsGrade II* listed

Penoyre House, Battle, Powys, Wales is a nineteenth century country house. Designed by Anthony Salvin for Colonel John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins, it was built between 1846-8. In an Italianate style, it is described by Mark Girouard as "Salvin's most ambitious classical house". [1] The enormous cost of the house almost bankrupted the family and it was sold only 3 years after Colonel Watkins's death. From 1947, the house was in institutional use, and was converted to apartments in the early twenty-first century. The building is Grade II* listed [2] The gardens are listed Grade II on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales. [3]

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History

John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins (1802–65) was a nineteenth century Welsh Liberal politician who sat Member of Parliament for Brecon. [4] and was High Sheriff of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire. [5] Watkins inherited a late eighteenth century house from his father, the Reverend Thomas Watkins, [6] and engaged Salvin to undertake a complete rebuilding from 1846-8. [6] The cost of the house alone was over £33,000 [6] and Allibone records that Watkins was obliged to "close (it) and live cheaply in a local hotel." [7] Only three years after his death in 1865, the house was sold. Privately owned from 1868 to 1947, [8] the house was then used as a school, the clubhouse to a golf club, a nursing home, an hotel and a rehabilitation centre. [9] In the early twenty-first century, the house was converted to apartments. [10]

Architecture

The house is designed in an Italianate style, echoing Sir Charles Barry's Trentham Park [6] and Thomas Cubitt's Osbourne House. [11] Girouard calls it "Salvin's most ambitious classical house". [1] It has a three-storey main block, [1] a "colossal" entrance tower [6] with a belvedere top, [1] and a balancing conservatory wing which had a glass-domed roof, although this was replaced in 1899. [6]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Girouard, p. 415.
  2. ↑ Good Stuff. "Penoyre House - Yscir - Powys - Wales". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 2016-07-10.
  3. ↑ Cadw. "Penoyre (PGW(Po)13(POW))". National Historic Assets of Wales . Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  4. ↑ Leigh Rayment Commons constituencies B Part 5 [Usurped!]
  5. ↑ "Editorial". Welshman. 6 October 1865. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Scourfield & Haslam, p. 426.
  7. ↑ Allibone, p. 92.
  8. ↑ Good Stuff. "Penoyre House - Yscir - Powys - Wales". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 2016-07-10.
  9. ↑ Good Stuff. "Penoyre House - Yscir - Powys - Wales". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 2016-07-10.
  10. ↑ "Savills | Penoyre Park, Cradoc, Brecon, LD3 9LP | Property for sale". Search.savills.com. 2012-01-06. Retrieved 2016-07-10.
  11. ↑ "Penoyre". Coflein. Retrieved 2016-07-10.

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