Wyndcliffe Court
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Wyndcliffe Court
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 Location within Monmouthshire
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| General information | |
| Architectural style | Arts and Crafts |
| Town or city | St. Arvans, Monmouthshire |
| Country | Wales, UK |
| Coordinates | 51°40′19″N 2°41′54″W / 51.6719°N 2.6984°WCoordinates: 51°40′19″N 2°41′54″W / 51.6719°N 2.6984°W |
| Completed | 1922 |
| Client | Charles Leigh Clay |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Eric Francis |
| Designations | Grade II* listed |
Wyndcliffe Court, 0.5 miles (0.80 km) north of the village of St. Arvans, Monmouthshire, Wales, is a Grade II* listed country house and gardens in the Arts and Crafts style, completed in 1922. The client was Charles Leigh Clay and the architect Eric Francis. The gardens, designed by Henry Avray Tipping, have in recent years been open during the summer for sculpture exhibitions.
Charles Leigh Clay (1867–1950) was the founder of the Claymore shipping company based in Cardiff, and the son of Henry Clay (1825–1921), who owned Piercefield House and its extensive estates in and overlooking the Wye valley. In 1910, Charles Leigh Clay commissioned a house on the high ground to the north of St Arvans village, about 1 mile (1.6 km) west of the Wyndcliff landscape feature. He later became High Sheriff of Monmouthshire in 1926. His son Henry Anthony Patrick Clay ERD who continued to live at Wyndcliffe Court until his death in 2006 also became High Sheriff of Monmouthshire in 1965.
Because work was interrupted during the First World War, the house was not completed until 1922. The architect was Eric Carwardine Francis, a local architect who had previously worked on the design of Mounton House for its owner Henry Avray Tipping, the Architectural Editor of Country Life magazine. The house is built of local stone in the "Cotswold Tudor" style, with mullion and transom windows. The architectural historian John Newman describes it as "relaxed and sophisticated".
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