Maesycrugiau Manor
Maesycrugiau Manor is a manor house in Carmarthenshire in Wales. The property, protected as a Grade II cultural monument, is about one kilometer southeast of the parish church of Llanllwni .
history
Already in the 16th century there is a manor house in the Elizabethan style on the site of the present manor house . Richard Mansel, 12th Baronet , acquired the property in 1878 through his marriage to Maud Jones , the daughter and heiress of John Jones († 1877) . After the old mansion was destroyed by fire in 1902, his son Sir Courtenay Mansel had a new mansion built in Neo-Tudor style from 1903 to 1905 according to plans by the London architect Arnold Mitchell . Originally, the house was to have an almost symmetrical, E-shaped garden front and an irregularly designed entrance front. However, the plans were not fully implemented. Only the utility wing and part of the main house were completed. Nevertheless, the mansion is an ambitious attempt to combine old architecture with modern technology in a building from the Edwardian era . After the house was uninhabited after the Second World War and fell into disrepair, it was bought by a private person in 2000 and, after a total restoration, is partly used as a holiday home. On June 24, 2003 it was placed under protection as a cultural monument.
investment
While the outside of the house was built in the Neo-Tudor style, inside it is equipped with double walls for thermal insulation, central heating and other state-of-the-art technology at the time of construction.
Exterior
The main building has both one and two storeys and is dominated by a three storey gate tower. The single-storey utility wing adjoins the tower, so that the floor plan consists of an elongated L. The outer walls are made of bushes with Bath Stone window frames . The flat-roofed tower has an entrance portal with a Tudor arch; the arrangement of the windows and an octagonal corner tower make the tower asymmetrical. To the right of the tower is the one-storey billiard room, behind it at right angles the two-storey main building, which also has irregularly arranged, partly four-axis windows.
Interior
Of the planned representation rooms , only the dining room and the billiard room were built, while the hall, the drawing room and the library were not built. The dining room is two-story and still has a stucco ceiling, the original wood paneling and a fireplace.
garden
On the south side of the manor there is a terrace with a formally laid out, rectangular pond. The property is further enclosed by a garden with old trees.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Lloyd u. a .: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (The Buildings of Wales). Yale University Press, New Haven 2006, ISBN 978-0-300-10179-9 , p. 324
Coordinates: 52 ° 2 ′ 30.8 " N , 4 ° 13 ′ 16.3" W.