Llanarth Court

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, Monmouthshire 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.HistoryThe first house recorded on the property goes back to the early medieval period and was called Hendre obaith, Home of the Old Faith. It came into the possession of ancestors of the Jones family well before 1469. In the late 16th and early 17th centuries, it was the home of Philip Jones, merchant and member of parliament for Monmouthshire. His family subsequently rebuilt the house as Llanarth Court in the seventeenth century. The current house was originally built around 1770 for John Jones. It was remodelled 1849–51 by Edward Habershon and his brother, W. G. Habershon, in an Italianate style. Lord Treowen, the ennobled descendant of the Joneses, died in 1933 and, his only son having predeceased him, the court was inherited by his daughter, the Honourable Fflorens Roch who gave it to the Roman Catholic Church in 1948. It operated as a Benedictine school until that was closed around 1990 and was subsequently sold for conversion into a private hospital.