Treberfydd House and Walled Garden/Nursery

The cost is £12 per HPS member (£16 non member). This includes a half hour guided tour of the house, entrance to the 10 acre garden and to the walled garden/nursery, all followed by home-made cakes and unlimited cups of tea or coffee.

Note: Booking and payment for this visit must be made before the 1st May 2024.

Please Note: No refunds can be given after the closing date (30th April 2024).

Places for this visit are limited to 40 on a first come first served basis

Located in the Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales, Treberfydd has been home to the Raikes family since it was built in 1852. The Grade I-listed gothic revival house, overlooking Llangorse lake, sits within 10 acres of private gardens and woodlands,

Robert and Frances Raikes, who built Treberfydd, were keen on creating an outdoor landscape as striking as their new home, and so instructed the well-known Victorian landscape architect William A. Nesfield to work alongside their architect in the 1840s. As a result, every room in the house offers a unique view of Nesfield's work.

Celebrated for his contributions to Kew Gardens and Regent's Park in London, Holkham Hall in Norfolk and Castle Howard in Yorkshire as well as dozens of other country houses, Nesfield brought his signature themes of elegant parterres, vistas and sweeping lawns to Treberfydd House.

Later generations felt his elaborate plantings were too costly to maintain and the parterres were dug out in the 1920s. But the sweeping lawns and extraordinary trees selected by Nesfield - including sequoias, Atlantic cedars and a magnificent cedar of Lebanon - remain. Visitors can enjoy Nesfield's ‘Long Walk’ - a path which stretches from the old croquet lawn through to the nursery in the Walled Garden Treberfydd.

There are easy walks around the Treberfydd gardens. An easy-to-follow map, and an informative guide to the historic trees is available.

The Walled Garden Treberfydd

Treberfydd's 18th-century walled garden is maintained by a plant nursery specialising in hardy plants grown in Wales, now displayed amongst some of the gardens historic planting.

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