Historic houses · Mid Wales
Falcondale House
In or near Lampeter.
Falcondale House in Wales Mid, United Kingdom.
Roger Kidd — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
- Family-friendly
- Limited wheelchair access
About
Falcondale House is a place of interest in Wales Mid, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Falcondale House is a Grade II listed former country house, now the Falcondale Mansion Hotel, which is situated some 1 mile north-west of Lampeter, Ceredigion, in south west Wales.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
Background
History
From the 1600s, the Peterswell estate had been owned by the Evans and then the Lloyd families, but due to financial problems and absentee owners the house was left empty and became derelict. The estate was acquired in 1812 by Richard Hart-Davis, who planted several hundred thousand trees and possibly rebuilt the house. His daughter Louisa married John Scandrett Harford, author and art collector, and when Hart-Davis ran into financial difficulties, the estate passed to his son-in-law (and the latter's brother, Abraham Grey Harford-Battersby) in 1819 and subsequently to John Scandrett's nephew, John Battersby Harford. John Battersby commissioned architect Talbot Bury to redesign the house in…
Description
The coach house was built in the nineteenth century, probably in 1859, at the time the house was rebuilt. It consists of a yard with a two-storey coach house on one side flanked by single storey wings and is listed as being a fine example of estate buildings of the period. The coach house, North Lodge and Falcondale Home Farm are Grade II listed buildings.
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 52.1217, -4.0972
- District
- Ceredigion
- Parish
- Lampeter
- Postcode
- SA48 7RX
- Parliamentary constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli
Sources
- wikidata: Q15217283 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Falcondale House (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Lampeter Town Hall
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Lampeter
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Victoria Hall Cinema
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Falcondale House?
- Falcondale House is in Mid Wales, United Kingdom (postcode SA48 7RX), in the parish of Lampeter.
- What is Falcondale House?
- Falcondale House in Wales Mid, United Kingdom.
- How do I get to Falcondale House?
- Drivers can use postcode SA48 7RX.
- How do I get to Falcondale House?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode SA48 7RX. It sits within the Ceredigion Preseli parliamentary constituency.