Muddlescombe

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Muddlescombe ( Welsh Muddlescwm ) is a former manor house in Carmarthenshire, Welsh . The former estate is about 1.5 km east of Kidwelly on the north bank of Gwendraeth Fawr .

history

Muddlescwm is mentioned in 1393 as the seat of a family of the lower Welsh landed gentry. Around 1400 the property came into the possession of the Dwnn family . After Henry Dwnn's death in 1469, it fell by marriage to Trahaern Morgan of Pencoed Castle in Monmouthshire . Muddlescombe remained the seat of his descendants until the line died out in the male line around 1570 with the death of Henry Morgan. His two daughters and heiresses married two brothers from the Mansel family , who inherited the property and established a branch of the Mansel family. Francis Mansel was raised to Baronet Mansel, of Muddlescombe in 1622 . Muddlescombe remained the seat of the Baronets Mansel of Muddlescombe until it fell to the Owen family from Orielton , Pembrokeshire through his daughter after the death of Edward Mansel, 4th Baronet in 1670, who had no male descendants . The Owens no longer used the property as a manor house, but only as a farm. The late medieval manor house was demolished in the 18th century, and the farm was significantly rebuilt and expanded in the 19th and 20th centuries. The property cannot be visited.

description

The remains of a two-storey, single-wing farm building are still preserved from the property. The two-storey stone building dates mainly from the 17th century, but has even older, late medieval wall parts. It served as a servants' house and contained a kitchen on the ground floor. The upper floor, accessible via an external staircase, contained the servants' bedrooms. The building was significantly rebuilt in the 18th century and eventually used as a stable. Today it is a roofless ruin. Most of the other buildings in the surrounding farm are from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archives Wales: Carmarthenshire Archive Service. Mansel Deeds and Documents. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 6, 2015 ; Retrieved February 5, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.archiveswales.org.uk
  2. ^ Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach, Robert Scourfield: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (Buildings of Wales) ; Yale University Press, New Haven 2006, ISBN 978-0-300-10179-9 , p. 218

Coordinates: 51 ° 43 ′ 48.5 "  N , 4 ° 17 ′ 19.2"  W.