Tal-y-coed Court

Tal-y-Coed Court
The Gatehouse to Tal-y-coed Court
Location within Monmouthshire
General information
Town or city Llantilio Crossenny
Country United Kingdom United Kingdom
Coordinates 51°49′57″N 2°50′29″W / 51.8325°N 2.84126°W / 51.8325; -2.84126Coordinates: 51°49′57″N 2°50′29″W / 51.8325°N 2.84126°W / 51.8325; -2.84126
Construction started 1881
Completed 1883
Client Joseph Bradney
Design and construction
Architect F. R. Kempson
Designations Grade II* listed

Tal-y-coed Court, at Llantilio Crossenny, Monmouthshire, Wales, is a Victorian country house. Constructed in 1881–1883, it was built for the Monmouthshire antiquarian Joseph Bradney, author of A History of Monmouthshire. A Grade II* listed building, the house is a "fine historicist essay in the Queen Anne Style, one of the earliest examples in Wales."

History

Colonel Sir Joseph Alfred Bradney, FSA, BA, JP, DL was a soldier who acquired the estate at Tal-y-Coed through purchase and inheritance. In 1881, aged 22, he commissioned F. R. Kempson to build the house[1] on the site of Llanvihangel Hall, which had been part of the estate of Crawshay Bailey.[2] The house cost £10,000,[2] reflecting Bradney's status as High Sheriff of Monmouthshire.

The Court, and its stables, are now sub-divided into a number of private residences.[3]

Description

The house is in a Queen Anne style,[1] which John Newman describes as "not at all what one would expect in South Wales at that date."[1] It is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and a brick plinth.[4] Of five bays, it has a large, hipped roof with "lofty dormer windows and high chimneystacks."[1] The interior is "virtually intact and (...) of exceptionally high quality."[2]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Newman, p. 297-8.
  2. 1 2 3 Good Stuff (1988-06-01). "Tal-y-coed Court – Llantilio Crossenny – Monmouthshire – Wales". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 2016-11-27.
  3. ↑ "3 bedroom semi-detached house for sale in Talycoed, MONMOUTH, NP25". Rightmove.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-11-27.
  4. ↑ "Tal-Y-Coed Court, Tal-Y-Coed, Llantilio Crossenny". Coflein. Retrieved 2016-11-27.

Bibliography

  • Newman, John (1995). Gwent/Monmouthshire. The Buildings of Wales. London, UK: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-071053-1.
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