Allt y Gof (Ael y Bryn)

Blaen Hiraeth

Bradbury Hall

Bryncaerau Castle (Parc Howard)

Caemawr Cottage (Plas Ucha)

Carreg Lwyd

Cilfig House

Cilymaenllwyd

Coalbrook

Elm Grove (Elms Grove)

Felinfoel House

Field House (Glanmor House, Springfields)

Furnace House (The Dell)

Goodig (Gwdig)

Gelly (Gelli) House

Highfield House

Llanelly House

Llangennech House (Buwchlaethwen)

Long Row

Machynys

Maesarddafen

Old Castle (Yr Hen Castell) Pond Tywm (Warm Pond)

Trebeddrod (also known as Trebedded, Trebeddod)

New Castle (Pen y Castell)

Pemberton Mansion (New Inn)

Penyfai

Penyfan

Thornbury Castle, Gloucestershire

Vauxhall House

Wauncrychydd

Westfa

Extract

Llanelly House

From 1768 to 1788 John Wesley, the Methodist Minister, preached to the people of Llanelli on eight occasions and often stayed in Llanelly House until Sir Thomas Stepney 7th Baronet died in 1772. Wesley was ‘hospitably entertained’ by the Stepney household and he lamented the death of Sir Thomas Stepney, writing in his diary that it was a ‘tremendous loss to the community.’ Sir Thomas Stepney died in 1772 and his son John Stepney inherited the Mansion, but he lived abroad and Agents managed his Estate. The Mansion House was rented out to workmen and their families and by 1800 the property had fallen into disrepair and was no longer used as a gentry residence.

In 1803 the traveller Malkin noted it as ‘an old mansion of the Stepney family, an old deserted seat of Sir John Stepney, in a state of dilapidation, inhabited principally by fishermen and colliers. In 1804 the house was said to have for years wept for the loss of its respectable owners, and is now dividing into three distinct family messuages and the out-offices are converting into comfortable tenements’.

The antiquary Richard Fenton makes a brief mention – ‘A House at Llanelly was lately the Seat of John Vaughan Esgr.’ Also in 1804 The Cambrian newspaper reported that the venerable old mansion of the Stepney Family of Llanelly, which had been empty for years was converted into three separate family dwellings. The outbuildings were also converted into ‘comfortable tenements’ and the accommodation was described as ‘much wanted from the increase in the population in the neighbourhood’.

Sir John Stepney, 8th Baronet, died in 1811 without issue and the house passed to named friends. By 1827 William Chambers Senior was in possession and he took steps to restore the Mansion House, converting the conservatory into a market for the townspeople.

By 1833 Llanelly House had been renovated by the Chambers family after being deserted by the Stepney family for more  than 60 years and neglected by their agents.

When William Chambers Senior died in 1855 his son, another William Chambers, who had established the Llanelli Pottery, found he was unable to retain the estate, because his mother and father’s marriage was not recognised under British law.

After a period of lengthy litigation the Mansion passed in the line of Sir John Cowell Stepney’s sister, Maria Justina, and eventually came to Catharine Meriel Cowell Stepney, who married Sir Edward Stafford Howard in 1911.