Cefntilla Court

The original house at Cefntilla dates from 1616 and is recorded as the manor house of the Oates family. During the English Civil War, the Parliamentarian general Thomas Fairfax established his headquarters at Cefntilla while laying siege to Raglan Castle, some three miles to the north. In August 1646, the terms of surrender by the Marquess of Worcester were signed "in the dining room of Mr Roger Oates' house of Kevntilla". By the 18th century, the court had become a farmhouse, and when, in the 19th century, it was bought by Crawshay Bailey, the ironmaster, as part of his Monmouthshire estate at Llanfoist, the house was derelict. In 1856 Bailey sold the house to the Memorial Committee which…

The house is built of Old Red Sandstone. John Newman, in his Gwent/Monmouthshire volume of the Pevsner Buildings of Wales describes Wyatt's design as "asymmetrical from every direction but not memorably grouped". Wyatt enveloped the original 17th-century building in his 19th-century reconstruction, but traces of the older house are still visible. The park surrounding the house is listed Grade II on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.