Garthmyl Hall, Berriew
Garthmyl Hall, Berriew, Powys | |
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Location in Powys | |
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Location | Powys, Wales, UK |
Coordinates | 52°29′23″N 3°14′30″W / 52.489732°N 3.241541°W |
OS grid | SO319088298935 |
Garthmyl Hall is a Grade II listed house in Berriew, in the historic county of Montgomeryshire, now Powys. The house stood close to the site of a large 17th-century large timber-framed house. Garthmyl Hall was rebuilt in 1859 by the architect James K Colling for Major-General William George Gold.
Setting
Garthmyl Hall is to the south of
The parkland is registered as Grade II in the Cadw Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales[1]
History
The original house, was known as Garthmyl House and was sited to the east of the present house and a print (probably copied from a drawing) shows a large timbered framed mansion[2] The house had been the ancestral home of the Jones family.[3] This house is likely to have been built by John Reynolds (a cousin to the Jones Family), who died in 1672. Following a fire in the mid-eighteenth century, part of the house remained until at least 1825 when it was recorded on an estate map. The old house had been demolished by the time of the subsequent tithe map of 1840 and a new house may have been built on the site of the present Garthmyl Hall[4]
In 1859 Garthmyl was purchased by John Naylor of Leighton Hall for his sister Elizabeth Mary, who had married William George Gold (1800–83) in 1832. At the time of their marriage Gold had been a captain in the 59th Regiment of Foot (later the Shropshire Regiment) and by 1859 had risen to become a major-general. In 1864 he was to become the Sheriff of Montgomeryshire. Many sources say that an earlier house was re-modelled for their occupation[5] but there does not appear to be any surviving evidence for this and the present Garthmyl Hall must represent a completely new building.[6] Following the death of Major General Gold's widow, the ownership of Garthmyl Hall passed to John Naylor, who in 1884 describes himself as of Leighton and Garthmyl Halls.[7] It was then purchased by Mrs Harriet Humphreys, and it continued in the ownership of the Humphrys and Churchill family until 1985.[8]
The hall was bought in October 2015 by the Pugh family, renovated extensively, and opened in April 2016 as a wedding venue. The hall is also used for country house breaks and other events.
Architectural description
The architect for Garthmyl Hall was
Garthmyl Hall is a two-storey, square, red brick house, five bays wide and six bays deep. It is executed in a sophisticated classical style with some
The brick Stable block, which has an entrance range with a central pediment over a lunette and surmounted by a cupola
The room inside to the right of the entrance has a decorative, almost Tudoresque, painted ceiling and a marble fireplace. The hall has an Ionic screen between the hall and the rising staircase around a stairwell. The staircase has iron lattice-work supports for the rail. Two large rooms on the left of the entrance have elaborately moulded and gilt decorated ceilings.
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Garthmyl Hall
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Garthmyl Hall. Frieze and chimney stacks
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Garthmyl Hall
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Garthmyl Hall Door surround
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Garthmyl Hall Gilded ceiling
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Garthmyl Hall Gilded ceiling
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Garthmyl Hall Painted ceiling
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Garthmyl Hall Painted ceiling and original picture hanging bars.
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Garthmyl Hall Gilded ceiling decoration
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Garthmyl Hall Gilded ceiling decoration
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Garthmyl Hall Marble chimney surround
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Garthmyl Hall. Pool and statue to N of Hall
Literature
- Antonia Brodie (ed) Directory of British Architects, 1834–1914: 2 Vols, British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects, 2001, pg 414
- R Scourfield and R Haslam The Buildings of Wales: Powys; Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire and Breconshire Yale University Press 2013.
References
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-04-27. Retrieved 2014-04-22.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Illustration of 'Garthmill House', (1798), The Gentleman's Magazine (1800), National Library of Wales, Pl. 4778.
- ^ Humphreys, C.,The pedigree of Jones of Garthmyl, The Montgomeryshire Collections, (1891), vol. 25, p. 299.
- ^ Estate and Tithe maps in the National Library of Wales
- ^ Haslam, R., The Buildings of Powys, (1979), p. 105
- ^ The evidence for this statement is provided by the photographs accompanying this article
- ^ E. Walford,The County-Families of Great Britain, Chatto and Windus, 1884.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-04-27. Retrieved 2014-04-22.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Haslam R and Scourfield R, “Powys:Buildings of Wales”, 2nd edition, Yale University Press
- ISBN 978-0-300-10910-8
- ISBN 978-0-300-09604-0.
- ^ M Stratton The Terracotta Revival: Building Innovation and the Industrial City in Britain and Northern America Gollancz, London 1993, 144–47
- ^ "Stratton", 157
- ^ The design of these chimneys is almost identical to that in Blashfield trade catalogue of 1868 illustrating Terra Cotta Chimney Shafts, Chimney Pots