Externally, the hall is a splendid example of Victorian Gothic Revival Architecture.

Notable details include:

• Gothic windows with carved stone surrounds
• Steeply pitched roofs with finials
• Original cast iron down pipes and guttering
• Dressed stone south and east facing elevations
• Carved stones from the Abbey have been built into the walls of the house and the garden.

Internally, all 52 rooms have been restored to create a marriage of style and beauty accenting their original features.

This is so through:

• The formal reception rooms and bedrooms
• The former domestic quarters
• The cellars and garden room.

Items from a life time of collecting form part of the 'style impact' in each of the rooms.

Each of the 52 rooms retain their original features.

In the formal reception rooms and bedrooms these include:

• 14 marble fireplaces of different design
• Rococco ceilings, gothic windows, wooden shutters, bell pulls, and window catches - all of which are again of individual design
• Stained glass ceilings above the magnificent snooker room and main staircase
• An entrance hall with an original Minton Hollis tiled floor and outstanding plasterwork

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Within the former domestic rooms features include:

• A further 10 fireplaces of individual designs
• Original slate slab surfaces in the larder, pantry and cellar areas
• 7 cellar rooms with vaulted ceilings and pig salting slabs.

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The house bursts with interior design ideas.

These include:

• Images hand painted on to existing wallpaper
• Bathroom themed to trains, castles and the 1930's
• Bedrooms themed to schooldays, the seaside and transport
• A snooker room celebrating the Arthurian Legend
• The remarkable Garden Room.

Overall collections include:

• Paintings
• Enamel signs, packaging and tins
• Clocks and phonographs
• Kitchen equipment, office machinery and vehicles
• Boys' and girls' adventure books in their original bindings
• The Arthurian Collection
• The Abbey-Cwm-Hir photographs.

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The remarkable Garden Room!

Where tour visitors can meet, greet and drink.

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