Cyfronydd Hall is a Welsh

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located on the A458 road between Welshpool and the hamlet of

Cyfronydd Cyfronydd railway station lies from Welshpool's Raven Square station on the narrow gauge Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway in Mid Wales. This is where trains pass each other when a two train service is operating. Passengers are able to al ...

, Llanfair Caereinion. It was built in about 1865 for the Pryce Jones family after an earlier hall on the site burned down. It once formed part of the Cyfronydd Estate.

History

Cyfronydd Hall was sold by Major Hamilton Pryce in 1927 and at that time it had 19 bedrooms and one bathroom. In 1938 it was purchased for £7,250 by Montgomeryshire County Council for use as a girls' school and remodelled, with the number of bedrooms being reduced to 14 and the number of bathrooms increased to four. The property at that time had of land. In the 1990s the property was bought by an English couple who gradually repaired and improved the property over a ten-year period. They added a swimming pool and a spa and sold the property in 2015 to William Hague and

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. The estate now has .

Architecture

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'' describe the present building briefly as follows:Haslam, Richard: ''The Buildings of Wales, Founding Editor: Nikolaus Pevsner, Powys'', page 97. London: Penguin Group, 2001. "Large square brick house of c. 1865 with vaguely French detail, particularly on the three-storey entrance tower with its chateau roof." '' Country Life'' has described the building more enthusiastically as follows: The building does not appear to be registered by

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as a

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Railway

Cyfronydd Hall is served by the nearby

Cyfronydd railway station Cyfronydd railway station lies from Welshpool's Raven Square station on the narrow gauge Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway in Mid Wales. This is where trains pass each other when a two train service is operating. Passengers are able to alig ...

on the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway.

References

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