Troy House

Troy House
Type	House
Location	Mitchel Troy, Monmouthshire
Coordinates	51°47′55″N 2°42′46″W / 51.7987°N 2.7129°W / 51.7987; -2.7129Coordinates: 51°47′55″N 2°42′46″W / 51.7987°N 2.7129°W / 51.7987; -2.7129
Built	C17th
Governing body	Privately owned
Listed Building – Grade II*
Official name: Troy House
Designated	1 May 1952
Reference no.	2060
Location of Troy House in Monmouthshire

Troy House is a Welsh historic house, on a "ducal" scale, north-east of Mitchel Troy, Monmouthshire. The original house belonged to Blanche Herbert, Lady Troy, of the Herbert family of Raglan Castle, who owned great estates in South Wales as Marquesses of Worcester and later Dukes of Beaufort. The present structure, overlooking the River Trothy was constructed from 1681 to 1684 as a wedding present for Charles Somerset by his father, Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort. Troy House is a Grade II* listed building.

The house is very large, "three bays deep but no less than thirteen bays wide", in a style that was very modern for the date of design, "a hipped roof over a regularly fenestrated block." Some 19th-century authors wrongly attributed the design of the house to Inigo Jones. However the Monmouth antiquarian Charles Heath doubted the attribution in 1804, writing, "The house is said to have been built by Inigo Jones but I do not think the report well founded." The historian William Coxe, writing in his An Historical Tour In Monmouthshire in 1801, was also sceptical; "It does not reflect much credit on the taste of that eminent architect, having a long, straggling front, and being built in so low a situation as to exclude all prospect from the habitable apartments."

Local historian Keith Kissack described the house as "not very impressive externally" but the interior contains "three good-quality, typically Jacobean decorated ceilings." The building once contained panelling from Raglan Castle but this was subsequently removed to Badminton House.