Llangattock Court

By crossing the river Usk you are technically in Llangattock – though both Crug Hywel and Llangattock started life as one Parish. Here, looking back to town sits Cwrt Llangattock, a home with a complex history.

From the front it all looks nice and simple – a beautiful manor house built around 1700, with a fine ‘William and Mary’ hood over the main door.

However there is more to it than that, and we are basically looking at two houses. To the right there is a small Tudor farmhouse, and to the left is the main block which looks to be late C17, early C18.

As they had enough money to build the larger new house it is interesting that they chose to keep the old house. The front elevation has been created with such a sense of purpose you’d have imagined that they would have just demolished the smaller old house.But fortunately they didn’t.

Inside, there is a fine drawing room in chestnut from around 1700. The fireplace dates to the middle of the eighteenth century.

The original staircase has gone, and been replaced by this Georgian example. It is likely that the original stairs ended up as the service stair as you can see how it has been re-fitted.

The kitchen reveals Tudor arches which are clearly at least a century before the main house.

In the roof is an impressive, and heavy roof structure. It needs to be to carry the weight of thestone tiles above. Even so it looks surprisingly primitive – like a cruck structure.