Garthmyl Hall, Berriew
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| Garthmyl Hall, Berriew, Powys | |
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 Garthmyl Hall is a Grade II listed house in Berriew historic county of Montgomeryshire | |
  Location in Powys | |
| General information | |
| Location | Powys, Wales, UK |
| Coordinates | 52°29′23″N 3°14′30″W / 52.489732°N 3.241541°W |
| OS grid | SO319088298935 |
Garthmyl Hall is a Grade II listed house in Berriew, in the historic county of Montgomeryshire, now Powys. The house stood close to the site of a large 17th-century large timber-framed house. Garthmyl Hall was rebuilt in 1859 by the architect James K Colling for Major-General William George Gold.
Garthmyl Hall is to the south of Berriew, overlooking the Severn valley and set back from the A 483 Welshpool to Newtown Road. It is immediately southwest of the junction with the B 4385 and set in a small park, which covers about 15 acres. The house is surrounded by woodland on ground that slopes to the south.
The parkland is registered as Grade II in the Cadw Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales[1] where it is described as a "Good example of a classical gentry house with well preserved grounds developed in the mid nineteenth century in a fine setting. The garden contains a magnificent mature cedar of Lebanon." To the north of the house is a large walled garden, and to the east are stable buildings.
History
The original house, was known as Garthmyl House and was sited to the east of the present house and a print (probably copied from a drawing) shows a large timbered framed mansion[2] The house had been the ancestral home of the Jones family.[3] This house is likely to have been built by John Reynolds (a cousin to the Jones Family), who died in 1672. Following a fire in the mid-eighteenth century, part of the house remained until at least 1825 when it was recorded on an estate map. The old house had been demolished by the time of the subsequent tithe map of 1840 and a new house may have been built on the site of the present Garthmyl Hall[4]
In 1859 Garthmyl was purchased by John Naylor of Leighton Hall for his sister Elizabeth Mary, who had married William George Gold (1800–83) in 1832. At the time of their marriage Gold had been a captain in the 59th Regiment of Foot (later the Shropshire Regiment) and by 1859 had risen to become a major-general. In 1864 he was to become the Sheriff of Montgomeryshire. Many sources say that an earlier house was re-modelled for their occupation[5] but there does not appear to be any surviving evidence for this and the present Garthmyl Hall must represent a completely new building.[6] Following the death of Major General Gold's widow, the ownership of Garthmyl Hall passed to John Naylor, who in 1884 describes himself as of Leighton and Garthmyl Halls.[7] It was then purchased by Mrs Harriet Humphreys, and it continued in the ownership of the Humphrys and Churchill family until 1985.[8]
The hall was bought in October 2015 by the Pugh family, renovated extensively, and opened in April 2016 as a wedding venue. The hall is also used for country house breaks and other events.
