Penoyre Park
Brecon
One of Brecon's grandest homes, with Victorian elegance and sweeping Beacons views.
Penoyre House
Designed in the mid-19th century by renowned architect Anthony Salvin, Penoyre House is a striking Italianate mansion with wide views across the Brecon Beacons. In 2007 the house was sensitively converted into 11 apartments and 4 coach houses, keeping its character while creating homes for modern country living.
A Bit Of History
Penoyre House is a 19th century country house designed by Anthony Salvin for Colonel John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins,
John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins (1802–65) was a Welsh Liberal politician who sat Member of Parliament for Brecon and was High Sheriff and Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire. Watkins inherited a late 18th century house from his father, the Reverend Thomas Watkins, and engaged Salvin to undertake a complete rebuilding from 1846-8.
The cost of the house alone was over £33,000, and Allibone records that Watkins was obliged to "close (it) and live cheaply in a local hotel." Only 3 years after his death in 1865, the house was sold.
Privately owned from 1868 to 1947, the house was then used as a school, the clubhouse to a golf club, a nursing home, an hotel and a rehabilitation centre. In the early twenty-first century, the house was converted to apartments.
The house is designed in an Italianate style, echoing Sir Charles Barry's Trentham Park and Thomas Cubitt's Osbourne House. Girouard calls it "Salvin's most ambitious classical house". It has a three-storey main block, a "colossal" entrance tower with a belvedere top, and a balancing conservatory wing which had a glass-domed roof, although this was replaced in 1899.
Living at Penoyre
11 apartments and 4 coach houses share the grounds of this remarkable Victorian house. Residents can swim in the indoor pool, relax in the orangery, play on the golf course on the estate, or simply take in the Beacons views, with Brecon only a few minutes away.
Penoyre Park Ltd
The owners of the leasehold residences are the sole directors of of Penoyre Park Ltd, which owns and runs the freehold of the estate.
This website is the portal for the residents' estate management
