Bodrhyddan Hall is a country house in

Rhuddlan Rhuddlan () is a town, community, and electoral ward in the county of Denbighshire, Wales, in the historic county of Flintshire. Its associated urban zone is mainly on the right bank of the Clwyd; it is directly south of seafront town Rhyl. I ...

, Denbighshire, Wales. It is a

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. The present building is a 1690s remodelling of an earlier building dating from the 16th century. It was later upgraded by the architect

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, who in 1875 added a new west facing entrance front and a service wing and refaced the east front. The hall is built in brick in 3 storeys with some terracotta detail and slate roofs. The west entrance frontage has 5 bays with a 4-storey projecting porch. The side elevations have 9 bays (arranged 2-1-3-1-2), the south front looking over a parterre. Some of the garden features and outbuildings are also listed. The house and gardens may be visited by the public.

History

Bodrhyddan traditionally belonged to the Conway family, descending in the male line until the death of the last male heir,

Sir John Conway, 2nd Baronet Sir John Conway, 2nd Baronet (c. 1662 – 1721) of Bodrhyddan Hall, Rhuddlan, Denbighshire was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1685 and 1721. Early life Conway was the eldest son of Sir Henry Conw ...

, in 1721. Bodrhyddan then passed via his daughter Penelope to the Stapletons and eventually by marriage to Rev.

William Davies Shipley William Davies Shipley (5 October 1745 (OS) – 7 May 1826) was an Anglican priest who served as Dean of St Asaph for nearly 52 years, from 27 May 1774 until his death. In a legal cause célèbre which became known as the Case of the Dean of ...

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. The dean's eldest son was killed in a shooting accident and so the Hall passed to his grandson William, who adopted the surname Shipley-Conwy. Captain William Shipley-Conwy never married, and on his death the estate passed to his sister Charlotte, who was married to Richard Thomas Rowley, the second son of

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of Somerhill, County Meath. It then descended in that family, renamed Rowley-Conwy, to Rafe Grenville Rowley Conwy, who died unmarried in 1951, leaving the estate to his nephew the 9th Baron Langford. Lord Langford died at Bodrhyddan in 2017 at the age of 105 and was succeeded by his son Hon. Owain Grenville Rowley-Conwy.

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External links

official website
Houses in Denbighshire Grade I listed buildings in Denbighshire Grade I listed houses in Wales