Llanerchaeron

Llanerchaeron
Llanayron House
TypeHouse
LocationAberaeron, Ceredigion
Coordinates52°13′06″N 4°13′29″W / 52.21833°N 4.22472°W / 52.21833; -4.22472
Built1790s
ArchitectJohn Nash
Architectural style(s)Regency villa
OwnerNational Trust
Listed Building – Grade I
Official nameLlanerchaeron (previously listed as Llanaeron House)
Designated1964
Reference no.10715[1]
Llanerchaeron is located in Wales
Llanerchaeron
Location of Llanerchaeron in Wales
Brewing room where various styles of beers were made and piped underground to the house

Llanerchaeron, pronunciation known as "Llanayron[2] House" to its nineteenth-century occupants, is a grade I listed mansion on the River Aeron, designed and built in 1795[3] by John Nash for Major (later Colonel) William Lewis as a model self-sufficient farm complex located near Ciliau Aeron, some 2+12 miles south-east of Aberaeron, Ceredigion, Wales. There is evidence that the house replaced an earlier mansion. A later owner, William Lewes, was the husband of Colonel Lewis's inheriting daughter.[4]

The estate is now in the care of the National Trust. The gardens and the parkland are listed on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales. The neighbouring parish church of St Non – also redesigned by Nash – has registers of baptisms and burials dating from 1730 and marriages from 1754.[5]

  1. ^ Llanerchaeron at British Listed Buildings (unofficial website)
  2. ^ Anglicised spelling from the Welsh "Llannerch Aeron" as used in 19th-century public records. Many variant spellings of this place name have been used.
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  4. ^ "John and Eliza were the children of William Lewis and Corbetta Williama Powell. The estate passed to Eliza, who married William Lewes and it was their great-grandson John Powell Ponsonby Lewes who left the estate to the National Trust in 1989". – From the Coflein 'Heritage assessment' available in External links below.
  5. ^ Kelly's Directory, South Wales 1895, cited at GENUKI: Llannerch Aeron - Kelly's Directory 1895