Troy House: A Tudor Estate Across Time

by Ann Benson and Ann Benson

Perched on a hill overlooking the River Trothy in Monmouthshire, Troy House was built in the late seventeenth century as a wedding present for Charles Somerset by his father, Henry Somerset, first Duke of Beaufort. A magnificent house with a neoclassical fa ade and three striking Jacobean painted ceilings, Troy House remained in the Somerset family until the end of the nineteenth century, when it was auctioned off and eventually turned into a convent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783169893
• ISBN13: 9781783169894
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.5" x 9.8"