This house sits on the edge of Llandegla moors. A Winter walk past it today and not one person or car seen for over 2 miles. To get to it you drive down a lane that I think must have been private it's over a mile long. The entrance used to boast two large sandstone pillars at the entrance until our farmer friend Elwyn sold them for a tenner. They are still on the estate just a bit further down the road. The farm has a walled garden of some acres. The ten foot wall which protects the garden from the very cold winds must be over half a mile long. The fields that make up the estate has stone walls whose length can be measured in many miles. It would take a few million to return the walls to their former glory.
This was a house built with vision, a paradise. The instigator of this estate was supposedly an officer who had returned from the Napoleonic Wars. He must have returned with a lot of gold to build it. The house bears a stone with the date of 1812. The owner would have never seen all the splendor he planned. Beech trees line the roads and forest strips between some of the fields, the trees well over 100 ft high, many 100's of them. I would name the estate but the owner is a very private person. And so it sits in dereliction waiting to be returned to its former glory. It will not matter however if it stays as it is, a little paradise in a world that is too busy with too many people.
Link Napoleonic Wars
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