Bertholey House
Bertholey House, is a country house near the village of Llantrisant, in Monmouthshire, Wales. A Tudor house originally stood on the site, the home of the Kemeys family. In the 1830s, a new mansion was built, in a Neoclassical style, for Colthurst Bateman. This house was almost completely destroyed in a fire in 1905. From 1999, the mansion was restored and is again a private home. The gardens and grounds are listed on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.
| Bertholey House | |
|---|---|
 The house in its park | |
| Type | House |
| Location | Llantrisant, Monmouthshire |
| Coordinates | 51.6462°N 2.8721°W |
| Built | c.1830 |
| Architectural style(s) | Neoclassical |
| Official name | Bertholey House |
| Designated | 1 February 2022 |
| Reference no. | PGW(Gt)11(MON) |
| Listing | Grade II |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
| Official name | Former Farmhouse Range at Bertholey |
| Designated | 25 February 2000 |
| Reference no. | 22918 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
| Official name | Stable/Cartshed block at Bertholey, including attached wall and lean-to to west |
| Designated | 3 August 2000 |
| Reference no. | 23868 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
| Official name | Dovecote at Bertholey |
| Designated | 25 February 2000 |
| Reference no. | 22920 |
  Location of Bertholey House in Monmouthshire | |
History
The estate at Bertholey originally belonged to a cadet branch of the Kemeys family of Kemeys Manor. John Newman, in his Gwent/Monmouthshire volume of the Pevsner Buildings of Wales notes that Edward, Lord of Kemeys, had established his family in South Wales in the early 13th century.[1]
In 1809, Colthurst Bateman (1780-1859) married Jane Sarah Kemeys Gardener-Kemeys, heiress to Bertholey, and they built a new house on the site. This has been attributed to George Vaughan Maddox of Monmouth, a prominent local architect.[2][lower-alpha 1]
The house was almost totally destroyed in a fire in 1905.[4] It was restored in 1999.[5]
Architecture and description
John Newman suggests that, had Bertholey survived, it would have been "one of the outstanding Neoclassical buildings in the county."[3] It was of three storeys and five bays.[3][lower-alpha 2]
In 2022 the gardens and park were listed on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.[6][7] Three estate buildings are listed, all at grade II, including elements of the original house, which were used as a farmhouse after 1830,[8] the stables,[9] and a dovecote.[10]
Footnotes
- John Newman does not ascribe the house to Maddox, describing the house's architect as unknown.[3]
- The 1990s reconstruction only restored two of the original three storeys.
References
- Newman 2000, pp. 259–261.
- Kingsley, Nicholas. "Bateman of Oak Park, Altavilla and Bertholey House". Landed families of Britain and Ireland. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
- Newman 2000, p. 360.
- "Bertholey House, Llantrisant Fawr (36462)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
- "Bertholey House". Parks & Gardens UK. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
- Cadw. "Bertholey House (PGW(Gt)11(MON))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
- "Bertholey House Gardens, Llantrisant (265989)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
- Cadw. "Former farmhouse range at Bertholey (Grade II) (22918)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
- Cadw. "Stable/Cartshed block at Bertholey, including attached wall and lean-to to west (Grade II) (23868)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
- Cadw. "Dovecote at Bertholey (Grade II) (22920)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
Sources
- Newman, John (2000). Gwent/Monmouthshire. The Buildings of Wales. Penguin. ISBN 0-14-071053-1.