Tal-y-coed Court
| Tal-y-Coed Court | |
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The Gatehouse to Tal-y-coed Court
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 Location within Monmouthshire
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| General information | |
| Town or city | Llantilio Crossenny |
| Country |
 United Kingdom
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| Coordinates | 51°49′56″N 2°50′24″W / 51.8321°N 2.8400°WCoordinates: 51°49′56″N 2°50′24″W / 51.8321°N 2.8400°W |
| Construction started | 1881 |
| Completed | 1883 |
| Client | Joseph Bradney |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | F.R. Kempson |
| Designations | Grade II* listed |
Tal-y-coed Court, at Llantilio Crossenny, Monmouthshire, Wales, is a Victorian country house. Constructed between 1881-3, it was built for the Monmouthshire antiquarian Joseph Bradney, author of A History of Monmouthshire. A Grade II* listed building, the house is a "fine historicist essay in the Queen Anne Style, one of the earliest examples in Wales."
Colonel Sir Joseph Alfred Bradney, FSA, BA, JP, DL was a soldier who acquired the estate at Tal-y-Coed through purchase and inheritance. In 1881, aged 22, he commissioned F.R. Kempson to build the house on the site of Llanvihangel Hall, which had been part of the estate of Crawshay Bailey. The house cost £10,000, reflecting Bradney's status as High Sheriff of Monmouthshire.
The Court, and its stables, are now sub-divided into a number of private residences.
The house is in a Queen Anne style, which John Newman describes as "not at all what one would expect in South Wales at that date." It is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and a brick plinth. Of five bays, it has a large, hipped roof with "lofty dormer windows and high chimneystacks." The interior is "virtually intact and (...) of exceptionally high quality."
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