Two houses preceded Dyffryn House as we see it
today, the first was an Elizabethan manor known as Worleton, which was owned and
occupied by the Button family for nearly 400 years. The second house was a late
Georgian mansion built by Thomas Pryce (Sheriff 1759) who bought the House and
estate in 1749 and changed its name to Dyffryn.
Sir John Cory, who had been prominent in the
commercial, religious and philanthropic life of South Wales, bought the Dyffryn
Estate of some 2000 acres in 1891, and had the present Victorian house built to
replace the Georgian mansion in 1893. The house we see today was built by E A
Landsowne, an Architect from Newport, in the style reminiscent of an Italian
Villa. Dyffryn House is two storeys high, with an attic floor within the mansion
roof space. It has a slated roof with many gables and chimneys and is built of
stone with Bath stone dressings. The house has a very grand Doric colonnade to
the centre of the South garden front. On the North side, there is a projection
formed by the great hall, flanked by a porte-cochere of tall pillars surmounted
by a carved pediment.
Dyffryn House
and Garden were sold to the late Sir Cennedd Traherne in 1939 who generously
presented them to
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Mounted size 395mm x 295mm
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