Bodorgan Hall

Bodorgan Hall
Bodorgan House
Location within Anglesey
General information
Architectural style	Neo-classical
Location	Bodorgan, Anglesey, Wales
Coordinates	53°10′44″N 4°25′0″W / 53.17889°N 4.41667°W / 53.17889; -4.41667
Construction started	1779
Completed	1782
Design and construction
Architect	John Cooper

Bodorgan Hall is a country house and estate located in the hamlet of Bodorgan, Anglesey, Wales, situated near the Irish Sea in the southwestern part of the island. The hall is the seat of the Meyricks, and is the largest estate on Anglesey. The hall is the home of Sir George Meyrick and his wife, Lady Jean Tapps Gervis Meyrick who is the niece of the Duke of Buccleuch.

The house, dovecote and barn are Grade II listed buildings and it is also listed as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and Environmentally Sensitive Area on the Malltraeth estuary. The estate contains woodland, terraced and walled kitchen gardens, a large circular dovecote, lawn and a deer park. The house was completed between 1779–82, and significant additions were made in the mid nineteenth century.

Bodorgan has existed for over a thousand years. During the mediaeval period it was an estate belonging to the bishops of Bangor. Probably at the time Rowland Meyrick was Bishop of Bangor (1559–66), the estate became demesne land of the Meyrick family, one of the most powerful families on Anglesey. A Tudor mansion was built with sprawling gardens, which can be seen on an estate map drawn by Lewis Morris in 1724. This was demolished in 1779 to make way for a new house, outbuildings and a poultry court, designed by the architect John Cooper for Owen Putland Meyrick and built in 1779–82. The design shows some similarities to Baron Hill House in which Cooper had been employed as an assistant to Samuel Wyatt, working for Lord Bulkeley.

Owen Fuller Meyrick inherited Bodorgan Hall in 1825 and made extensive changes to the driveway and gardens, and moved the entrance to the north of the house instead of the east. He was responsible for building the porch and forecourt before his death in 1876.

In October 1926, Anglesey's first record of the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker was reported at Bodorgan Hall.

Today, the hall is the home of Sir George Meyrick and his wife, Lady Jean Tapps Gervis Meyrick who is the niece of the Duke of Buccleuch. The estate includes a farmhouse rented by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.