Room in a Shared House, Llancayo, NP15

The Area



Llancayo House is situated in its own parkland grounds. It is in Monmouthshire: approximately 1.25 miles from Usk, and 8.5 miles from Abergavenny. It is easily commutable to towns and villages near Monmouth, Newport, Cardiff and Bristol.

The Property

Ten large en-suite rooms, with large kitchen, Drawing room and Dining room. Wheelchair accessible.

Architecture:
Llancayo House is a Grade II Listed Georgian Mansion building. Nicholaus Pevsner, the renowned architect, described the house as follows: "Quite a sizeable three-storeyed double pile block, the South Front of five regular bays with angle quoins. The three bay East (entrance) front, clearly built at the same time, is by contrast an eccentric composition. Glazed windows in the centre bay only, and a small timber porch on Doric columns carrying an elegant iron balcony".

History:
Some information below is from Bradney's History of Monmouthshire and the National Archive.
The Lower Llancayo Estate (i.e. the Llancayo House Estate) originally belonged to Edward ap Jenkin, who lived there is 1535. He was also a tenant of the land belonging to the Chantery of the Trinity in Usk church. The great grandson of Edward ap Jenkin, William Powell, squandered the estate and in 1697 the Llancayo Estate became the property of Sir Hopton Williams. At the beginning of the 19th Century, Edward Berry bought the estate and built the present mansion onto the old house.

Edward Berry was a prestigious velvet merchant, who worked in Spital Square, London (Kents Directory 1794): An alphabetical List of the Names and Places of Abode of the Directors of Companies, Persons in Public Business, Merchts., and other eminent Traders in the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark.

Parking


Private, secure car park for 18 cars - with CCTV.

Application Process


References will be required, along with a security deposit equivalent to one month’s rent.