DiCamillo Companion
Wales

Penoyre House (Pennoyre House)

Battle

Powys

Wales

Historic County: Brecknockshire, Breconshire

Start Date: 1846

Completion Date: 1848

Status: Fully Extant

House Open to Public: No

Country House: Yes

The House from a circa 1919 postcard

  • Earlier Houses: The current house replaced an earlier house of 1799, built for The Rev. Thomas Watkins.

    Built / Designed For: Colonel John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins

    House & Family History: Penoyre is a five-bay by three-story house that was designed in the Italianate style of Charles Barry's Trentham Park. The House, which contained lavish interiors, was built for Col. Lloyd Vaughan Watkins and cost the immense sum of £33,000. The Conservatory, demolished in 1899, had a large glass dome.

    Comments: Mark Girouard, writing in "The Victorian Country House," called Penoyre "Salvin's most ambitious classical house."

  • Architect: Anthony Salvin

    Date: 1846-48
    Designed: House for Col. Lloyd Vaughan Watkins

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  • John Bernard (J.B.) Burke, published under the title of A Visitation of the Seats and Arms of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, among other titles: Vol. II, p. 175, 1853.

  • Title: Buildings of Wales: Powys, The
    Author: Haslam, Richard; Pevsner, Nikolaus (Advisory Editor)
    Year Published: 1979
    Publisher: London: Penguin Books
    ISBN: 0140710.515
    Book Type: Hardback

  • House Listed: Grade II*

    Park Listed: Grade II

  • Past Seat / Home of: SEATED AT EARLIER HOUSE: The Rev. Thomas Watkins, 18th century. SEATED AT CURRENT HOUSE: Col. John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins, 1848-65.

    Current Ownership Type: Corporation

    Primary Current Ownership Use: Flats / Multi Family

    Ownership Details: Converted into flats in the early 21st century

  • House Open to Public: No

    Historic Houses Member: No

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