Tredegar House & Park
Tredegar House is one of the architectural wonders of Wales and one of the most significant late seventeenth century houses in the whole of the British Isles. For over five hundred years it was the home to one of the greatest Welsh families, the Morgan’s, later Lords Tredegar. Visitors are taken on a lively and entertaining guided tour which includes the magnificent State Rooms, the elegant family apartments, and the intriguing warren of rooms ‘below stairs’. The House is set in 90 acres of parkland with nineteenth century planting of sequoia, rhododendron and other shrubs, formal gardens, lake and children’s playground. The basic mediaeval garden plan survives on two sides of the House in a series of walled gardens, which have been rescued from the brink of decay. An outstanding early eighteenth century Orangery Garden has been recreated from surviving documentary and archaeological evidence. Late eighteenth century landscaping by Mickle swept away all but one of the avenues of oaks and chestnuts radiating from the House. His plan to demolish…
