Cresselly House is a Georgian country house in the village of
Cresselly
Jeffreyston (also known as Jeffreston) is a village, parish and community in Pembrokeshire.
Jeffreyston lies on the B4586 road about northwest of the main A477 St Clears to Pembroke road; the nearest town is Tenby about to the southeast.
C ...
, near Kilgetty, Pembrokeshire that operates as a country house hotel. It is a
Grade II* listed building
In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Ir ...
while its gardens and park are designated at Grade II on the
Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.
History
Cresselly had belonged to the Bartlett family since 1564. It came into the Allen family in 1728 when John Allen (d. 1752), of Goodhooke, married Joan, the daughter and heiress of John Bartlett of Cresselly. John Allen was appointed
High Sheriff of Pembrokeshire
This is a list of High Sheriffs of Pembrokeshire. The High Sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown. Formerly the High Sheriff was the principal law enforcement officer in the county but over the centuries most of the responsibilitie ...
in 1732. The estate lay on reserves of coal, which were mined to provide an income and exported from Cresswell Quay. The present house was built in 1769 by John Allen's son, Captain John Bartlett Allen, an army officer in the First Foot Guards, to replace an earlier building which was undesirably close to the coal mines.
The estate descended in the male line down to Henry Seymour Allen (1847-1928) who died unmarried, when it passed to his nephew, Hugh Evelyn Allen (1880-1933). Hugh Evelyn's heir was his only daughter, Auriol Joan Bartlett Harrison-Allen. Her son, Hugh Harrison-Allen is the present (2013) owner.
Architecture and description
The main range is rubble built in three storeys with two storey blocks on either side. It faces west looking down a valley towards the
Cleddau Estuary
The River Cleddau ( cy, Afon Cleddau) consists of the Eastern and Western Cleddau rivers in Pembrokeshire, west Wales. They unite to form the Daugleddau estuary and the important harbour of Milford Haven.
The name of the combined estuary – ...
.
References
External links
Official website
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Country houses in Wales
Grade II* listed buildings in Pembrokeshire
Registered historic parks and gardens in Pembrokeshire