page_title: Richard Kyrke Penson
section_title: Houses
hierarchical_section_title: Richard Kyrke Penson / Works include / Houses
caption_attribution_description: English: Bronwydd Mansion The south aspect of the gothic sham castle designed and built in the 1850s by R. K. Penson for the Baronets Lloyd of Bronwydd. It has been empty since not long after the last World War and has now largely collapsed through neglect. The ruins stand on the bank of the Afon Cynllo in the south of this grid-square, much of which was originally landscaped parkland.
context_page_description: Richard Kyrke Penson or R. K. Penson was a Welsh architect and artist.
  Richard Kyrke Penson was a leading Gothic Revival architect. His work, covered the counties of Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, Cardigan, Denbighshire, Montgomeryshire in Wales and Shropshire and Cheshire in England. His work consisted mainly of Anglican churches, church schools and church restorations, of which over 35 were in S.W. Wales However he was not restricted to church architecture and he was responsible for the remarkable group of kilns for Lime burning at Llandybie and also commercial buildings such as the Provincial Welsh Insurance Company Office in the High Street in Wrexham. He was also a notable exponent of Italianate Style of Villa and Palazzo architecture in Wales.
context_section_description: Bronwydd, a 'sham castle' built around an earlier house by the esteemed Gothic Revival architect. Designed by Penson for Sir Thomas Lloyd. It has been empty since not long after the Second World War and has now largely collapsed through neglect. The ruins stand on the bank of the Afon Cynllo
  Newtown House, formerly Plas Dinefwr Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire. Restoration house built l660-70 for Sir Edward Rice, a descendant of Rhys apThomas; possibly occupying the site of the Tudor house. Refitting of interior and Georgian door cases etc. added ca. l720. Victorian Gothic recessing with diagonal turrets and other additions by R. K. Penson in l856-7.
  Gate Lodge to Nanteos, Ceredigion
caption: Bronwydd Castle Ruins
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