page_title: Llanarth Court
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Llanarth Court / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: The gatehouse of Llanarth Court
context_page_description: Llanarth Court is a late-18th-century country house with substantial 19th-century alterations in Llanarth, Monmouthshire, Wales. The court was built for the Jones family of Treowen and was subsequently the home of Ivor Herbert, 1st Baron Treowen, whose family still owns much of the Llanarth estate, although not the court itself. The court is a Grade II* listed building and is now a private hospital.
context_section_description: The architectural historian John Newman describes the court as a "monster Neo-classical house", consisting of a three-storey, double pile block of thirteen bays.  The entrance porch, reputedly modelled on the temple at Paestum, has been removed.  The Habershons' work included the rendering and much classical decoration. The interior has been modernised and institutionalised and contains "little of either the later eighteenth or the mid-nineteenth centuries". The Monmouthshire author and artist Fred Hando, recording a visit to the court in the 1960s, noted the presence of two pictures by Tiepolo, The Healing at the Pool of Siloam and The Woman taken in Adultery. The latter is now in the collection of Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales. The court used to contain the original hall screen from Treowen, but, writing in 1999, Newman stated that the screen "is likely to be returned thither", a view which echoed that of Hando, writing 30 years earlier; "The oak screen dated 1627 was transferred from Treowen where, in my opinion, it would be more happily housed".
  The gardens surrounding the court are a "well preserved early 19th century landscape park". It is possible that the landscape gardeners Samuel Lapidge and John Claudius Loudon were involved in its design. Developments after World War II significantly altered the landscape and many features have been lost, including the kitchen garden dating from the 19th century, and the lake, which is now silted-up. The Church of St Mary and St Michael, originally the private chapel for the court, stands in the grounds and has its own Grade II* Listing. The gatehouse to the soutwest of the court, and the gates and gate piers to the north have their own Grade II listings.
caption: The gatehouse on the southwest drive
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