A large house of around 1650, built for the Devereux family. It had been given sash windows before Penson was commissioned by John Winder Lyon Winder to remodel it between 1840 and 1853. His alterations were extensive, but sensitively carried out, preserving many internal features. In The Buildings of Wales: Powys Scourfield and Haslam describe the work as ‘skilfully done’ and ‘of convincing quality’. 

Exterior

John Ingleby’s water colour of 1796 shows the house before Penson began his remodelling.

The family have preserved Penson’s drawings, and these are reproduced here by kind permission of Mr William Corbett-Winder. 

Penson adopted a lively, Jacobean style. He enhanced the west (entrance) front with elaborately shaped gables and mullioned and transomed windows topped by pediments. A central porch is not shown in the drawing. The treatment resembles work he was carrying out around the same time at Llanrhaeadr Hall, Denbighshire. 

The east front is an attractive composition with three big gables and lavish stone dressings. Tall, clustered chimneys give a picturesque outline: Penson used similar chimneys on his cottages in Berriew village, and elsewhere.

A terrace with fine balustrading makes for a dramatic view from the south. Penson provided designs for this and for other garden features as well as a lodge.