Llangoed Hall
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Llangoed Hall is a country house hotel situated in Powys in South Wales.
It is an exclusive hotel with a highly regarded restaurant, which won the Best Restaurant in Wales award in its first year of operation. The Hotel is also renowned for its decoration in Laura Ashley fabrics and styles, being owned by Sir Bernard Ashley, the former husband of the late designer.
History
Donated in 560 by Prince Iddon to the church in expiation of his sins, Llangoed Hall may have been the legendary White Palace, home of the first Welsh parliament. A mansion existed from 1632, in 1912 Clough Williams-Ellis designed it as a gracious country house, retaining the surviving Jacobean porch as part of the south wing. Sir Bernard Ashley then bought Llangoed Hall in 1989, seeing it as the place where he could fulfill his ambition to recreate the atmosphere of an Edwardian house party.The house has a number of curiosities, a family cemetery nearby contains the grave of a horse, and the house itself is rumored by local folklore to house a ghost named Arginald, a boy who committed suicide in the 1940s. Mention of Arginald is forbidden by staff when talking with hotel guests.
Hotel
Sir Bernard Ashley idea was that Llangoed Hall would be like an Edwardian house party - so from when it opened in 1990 there was no reception desk. Portraits and works by Whistler, Augustus John, Walter Sickert and the Edwardians adorn the Picture Gallery's walls, while bedrooms are decorated with furnishings from both the Laura Ashley fabric company and his new venture Elanbach, which is based in the hotel's grounds. The dining room offers modern classical cooking, making the most of local produce such as Welsh lamb, Wye salmon and laverbread.External links
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