Llanover House | |
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Type | House |
Location | Llanover, Monmouthshire |
Coordinates | 51°46′10″N 2°59′25″W / 51.7695°N 2.9903°W |
Built | 1837 |
Demolished | 1936 |
Architect | Thomas Hopper |
Architectural style(s) | Jacobethan |
Official name | Llanover Park |
Designated | 1 February 2022 |
Reference no. | PGW(Gt)41(MON) |
Listing | Grade II* |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | Ty Uchaf |
Designated | 6 May 1952 |
Reference no. | 1929 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | Old Stable Block (ruin) at Llanover Park |
Designated | 09 December 2005 |
Reference no. | 87177 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | Hanover Chapel |
Designated | 09 January 1956 |
Reference no. | 1994 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | Hall Monument |
Designated | 09 December 2005 |
Reference no. | 87159 |
Llanover House, Llanover, Monmouthshire, Wales, was a country house dating from the mid-19th century. Commissioned by Augusta Waddington, and her husband Benjamin Hall, later Baron Llanover, the house was designed by Thomas Hopper and was largely complete by 1837. Lady Llanover was an early champion of Welsh culture and the house became a centre for its investigation and promotion. In the grounds, the Halls created an extensive park. On the wider Ty Uchaf estate, which Lady Llanover had inherited from her father, the Halls created a model estate village, with housing for their workers, chapels, schools, police and fire services, and temperance public houses, as Lady Llanover was also a champion of abstinence. After Lord Llanover's death in 1867, his widow continued to live at the house until her own death in 1896.
The house survived her by some 40 years and was demolished in 1936. The Llanover estate remains in the ownership of her descendants. It is designated at Grade II* on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales. The gardens and grounds are occasionally open to the public.
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