Glamorgan Historic Houses

Fonmon Castle is a 13th-century medieval castle remodelled in the Georgian period to create a comfortable family home. Indeed, Fonmon is one of only a few castles in Wales still used as a dwelling today. The castle stands in attractive grounds, with a woodland area behind the house, and a walled garden featuring colourful borders, rare trees, and flowering shrubs.
Fonmon, Barry, Gower, Glamorgan, Wales, CF62 3ZN

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Llancaiach Fawr Manor was the home of Colonel Edward Prichard during the Civil War years. Guides are dressed in period costume and speak in the style of the 17th century. Tales of life in a Civil War gentry household are unfolded when touring the home. Charles I visited in 1645.
Nelson, Treharris, Glamorgan, Wales, CF46 6ER

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This is a partial ruin of a Tudor-Gothic fantasy castle-home built in 1835. Gables, turrets and towers are part of the architecture. There is an AV presentation on its history, an orangery, a park, formal gardens, an Iron Age hillfort, and a maze in Margam Park.
Margam, Gower, Glamorgan, Wales

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A late 16th century manor house located within the open air Museum of Welsh Life at St Fagans. St Fagan's Castle, as it is somewhat optimistically named, is one of the finest Elizabethan manor houses in Wales. The house was built in 1580 and heavily restored in the Victorian period. Lord Robert-Windsor (later Earl of Plymouth) , donated the Castle to the National Museum of Wales in 1946. The interiors are furnished as they might have been in the late 19th century.
Museum of Welsh Life, St Fagans, Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales, CF5 6XB

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