Glandwr

Tresaith

£775,000

It is not often that you find a historic seven-bedroom country house set in around five acres of land within a very short walk to the beach. Glandwr is one perfect example.

The property is currently being used as a country house B&B and well-being retreat.

This house is presented to a very high standard with some lovely original features throughout. There are lots of possible uses here subject to any consents that may be required and is ideal for those buyers wanting both a piece of history and to be close to the beach.

Set within private grounds, and just a short walk to the beach, Glandwr, a Georgian Grade 11 listed country house, dates to 1809. This date is carved into the beam above the large fireplace, in the living room.

Situated in picturesque Tresaith, a small village on the stunning Ceredigion coastline, the house was built by one of Cardiganshire's major landowners of the time, John Lloyd-Williams, of the Gwernant estate, as his family's summer home.

Glandwr is rumoured locally, to have engaged the expertise of John Nash, architect of Buckingham Palace and Regent Street, London.

No documentation remains, to prove this point, but it is certainly clear that Nash was known to work in the area at the time, following his building of the Llanarchaeron estate near Aberaeron. Thankfully some typical Nash influences such as the splendid overstairs ’lantern’ light, gothic arch windows and curved ceiling covings, are strong features in the house. Local people still refer to Glandwr as ‘the Nash house’.

By the end of the 19th century, Glandwr was rented by Newcastle Emlyn solicitor, Benjamin Evans. His daughter, Ann Adalisa Evans, nom de plume Allen Raine, was one of the period's most popular novelists. Her works were so renowned in Britain, America and Europe, that some of her stories describing rural life in West Wales, were made into early silent movies.

Allen Raine maintained a close association with Glandwr. In 1872, when she was 36, she left Glandwr and Tresaith, in her pony and trap, to marry Beynon Puddicombe in the local ancient parish church, St Michael's, Penbryn. She is now buried in the same churchyard.

Glandwr was extended several times over the years and, following a long period as a small hotel, the house was sympathetically restored and modernised to the comfortable and welcoming family home it is today.

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