Do you happen to have any history on Glyntaf residential home. I am very interested in finding out the history before it came a care home and do not know any way to find this out??
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The following has come from www.rightmove.co.uk
Description:
Situated in a wonderful position above
the eastern bank of the river Taf, it comprises four principle
buildings.
The main house is Grade II Listed and dates back to the 17th
Century, and is mentioned in the book ‘Historic Carmarthenshire Homes’
as a ‘The Dower House’.
The old coach house and stables have been
converted into additional living space, and there are two semi detached
flats created from a former barn.
The old dairy and cowshed have been
converted into offices. Currently operated as a care home.
The main house has eight bedrooms and three
bathrooms, the coach house has nine bedrooms and six bathrooms, and the
barn has four bedrooms and two bathrooms.
There are also a number of outbuildings.
The nine acres of grounds are a combination of gardens, woodland, and a walled garden.
The nine acres of grounds are a combination of gardens, woodland, and a walled garden.
The views from the property are wonderful across the
rolling countryside. The house is approached down a long drive.
From Coflein
An early 19th century Gothick villa incorporating an earlier (possibly 17th century) building.
Walls of rubble masonry with pointed windows and doorways.
From British Listed Buildings
Grade 11 - approximately 1.7 km SSW of Llanglydwen, to W of minor road to Login, overlooking River Taf.
Source: Cadw
From Gentleman's Magazine 1839
Cromlech in grounds (not sure if this is Glyn Tafs) Residence of Capt Protheroe.
From National Library of Wales
Trewern, Whitland, estate, records
Reference code(s): GB 0210 TRWERN
Held at: National Library of Wales
Title: Trewern (Whitland) Estate Records
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history: The family derives from a mixed origin, combining the Joneses of Penrallt, Cardiganshire, the Scottish family of Schaw, the Protheroes of Dolwilym, Carmarthenshire, and the Beynons of Trewern, Pembrokeshire.
The Protheroe family resided at Dolwilym from around the turn of the 17th century when Rhydderch ap John, living in 1600, bought Dolwilym. The estate descended in the male line until Evan Protheroe (1715-1795), who had married Elizabeth, daughter of David Jones of Penyrallt, died without issue. He bequeathed the estate to his brother-in-law, Dr Evan Jones, stipulating that he should take the surname Protheroe.
Evan Jones succeeded to the estate on the death of his sister, Elizabeth in 1813. He married Emma, widow of David Garrick, and when he died in 1841 the estate passed to his only daughter Emma Hart Protheroe. She married William Garrick Bridges Schaw (d. 1856), who took on the additional surname of Protheroe after their marriage in 1819. Their son, Edward Schaw Protheroe (d. 1906) married Ellen Augusta Cecilia Beynon, daughter of John Thomas Beynon, of Trewern.
Ellen's great-grandfather was Thomas Beynon of Cethin, who had inherited Trewern in right of his wife, Mary Thomas, heiress of Trewern and daughter of John Thomas (d. 1730). The estate had passed down the male line until Ellen Augusta Cecilia Beynon.
Edward and Ellen's heir was Major Godfrey Evan Protheroe of Dolwilym and Trewern, who took the additional surname of Beynon in 1899.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract: Deeds and documents,1600-1919, relating to the Trewern estate, mainly in Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, and Pembrokeshire, routine estate and financial correspondence, mainly 19th century, sale catalogues, valuations, etc., 1859-1919, rentals of the Trewern estate, 1860-1896, the Manoravon estate, 1875-1896, and the Clynmarch and Coedmor estates, 1875; and deeds and documents, 1892-1908, relating to the Dolwilym and Glyn-taf estates in Carmarthenshire, and Pembrokeshire.
From Carmarthen Historian - Diary of a Doctor's Wife (long article)
On their marriage Captain Schaw took the surname Protheroe, and with his wife settled at Colby Lodge, a neat Georgian residence near Amroth, but by 1839 they had moved to a small country house belonging to the Dolwilym estate, called Glyntaf, pleasantly situated on the breast of a hill above Dolwilym, where they continued until Dr Protheroe's death in 1841 when they moved to their final home in the sheltered vale below. It was their great-grandson, the late Mr. G. J. Protheroe-Beynon, O.B.E., of Trewern, afterwards of Hurst House, Laugharne, who placed the family archives in the Carmarthen Record Office, among them the diaries which we shall now examine.
From Coflein
An early 19th century Gothick villa incorporating an earlier (possibly 17th century) building.
Walls of rubble masonry with pointed windows and doorways.
From British Listed Buildings
Grade 11 - approximately 1.7 km SSW of Llanglydwen, to W of minor road to Login, overlooking River Taf.
Source: Cadw
From Gentleman's Magazine 1839
Cromlech in grounds (not sure if this is Glyn Tafs) Residence of Capt Protheroe.
From National Library of Wales
Trewern, Whitland, estate, records
Reference code(s): GB 0210 TRWERN
Held at: National Library of Wales
Title: Trewern (Whitland) Estate Records
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history: The family derives from a mixed origin, combining the Joneses of Penrallt, Cardiganshire, the Scottish family of Schaw, the Protheroes of Dolwilym, Carmarthenshire, and the Beynons of Trewern, Pembrokeshire.
The Protheroe family resided at Dolwilym from around the turn of the 17th century when Rhydderch ap John, living in 1600, bought Dolwilym. The estate descended in the male line until Evan Protheroe (1715-1795), who had married Elizabeth, daughter of David Jones of Penyrallt, died without issue. He bequeathed the estate to his brother-in-law, Dr Evan Jones, stipulating that he should take the surname Protheroe.
Evan Jones succeeded to the estate on the death of his sister, Elizabeth in 1813. He married Emma, widow of David Garrick, and when he died in 1841 the estate passed to his only daughter Emma Hart Protheroe. She married William Garrick Bridges Schaw (d. 1856), who took on the additional surname of Protheroe after their marriage in 1819. Their son, Edward Schaw Protheroe (d. 1906) married Ellen Augusta Cecilia Beynon, daughter of John Thomas Beynon, of Trewern.
Ellen's great-grandfather was Thomas Beynon of Cethin, who had inherited Trewern in right of his wife, Mary Thomas, heiress of Trewern and daughter of John Thomas (d. 1730). The estate had passed down the male line until Ellen Augusta Cecilia Beynon.
Edward and Ellen's heir was Major Godfrey Evan Protheroe of Dolwilym and Trewern, who took the additional surname of Beynon in 1899.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract: Deeds and documents,1600-1919, relating to the Trewern estate, mainly in Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, and Pembrokeshire, routine estate and financial correspondence, mainly 19th century, sale catalogues, valuations, etc., 1859-1919, rentals of the Trewern estate, 1860-1896, the Manoravon estate, 1875-1896, and the Clynmarch and Coedmor estates, 1875; and deeds and documents, 1892-1908, relating to the Dolwilym and Glyn-taf estates in Carmarthenshire, and Pembrokeshire.
From Carmarthen Historian - Diary of a Doctor's Wife (long article)
On their marriage Captain Schaw took the surname Protheroe, and with his wife settled at Colby Lodge, a neat Georgian residence near Amroth, but by 1839 they had moved to a small country house belonging to the Dolwilym estate, called Glyntaf, pleasantly situated on the breast of a hill above Dolwilym, where they continued until Dr Protheroe's death in 1841 when they moved to their final home in the sheltered vale below. It was their great-grandson, the late Mr. G. J. Protheroe-Beynon, O.B.E., of Trewern, afterwards of Hurst House, Laugharne, who placed the family archives in the Carmarthen Record Office, among them the diaries which we shall now examine.
2 comments:
Derrick Evans of Plascrwn recalls - 'When I read the bit about Glyntaf, two things I remember about Mrs Prothero Beynon. She used to come to the shop, which Parry Lewis ran, in her pony and trap,and when she left, if I was around,she would give me a ride over to the station. She was also leader with the Otter Hounds. I can see her now in blue jacket and plus-fours wading through the river under the bridge with the hounds and her followers.She was quite a lady!'
Denley Owen said...
I believe that the lady of Glyntaf that he refers to was Miss Protheroe, sister of Capt Dai Protheroe of Glyntaf. One of their brothers had stuck 'Beynon' to his surname which helped him inherit the Beynon estate of Trewern, Whitland which belonged to his mother's family. I was brought up at Cefn, Login which was next door to Glyntaf.
Best wishes,
Denley Owen
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