Overgrown Mansion : Wales
Buried deep in a wooded area in Wales lies a once grand mansion, once home one of the wealthiest of families on the isle of Anglesea.
I had seen pictures of what it looked like in the 19th century before being gutted by fire during WW2.
Its now almost totally reclaimed by nature, the place reminded me of the Angkot Wat temples in Cambodia, how it appeared from within the trees as yoou get nearer to it.
The rain had done its usual welsh worst and the ground was boggy, you have to walk a little way to get to it and finding firm ground proved difficult in some places. The gatehouse was the first building and looked quite grand, guarding the small bridge that spanned the road beneath.
The actual mansion would have been impressive in its day, the inside had deteriorated to leave expanses of space, the walls exposing brickwork and open fireplaces showing where the wooden beams of the floor would have sat.
Inside the house, ferns and other plants grew freely like an open greenhouse, the lack of colour in the stonework made the mansion almost fade into the forest and being a damp and overcast day probably helped this too. It wasnt long before the skies opened up and rain started to add to the water in the puddles.
A comical fall on one of the moss ridden steps put an end to this explore
I had seen pictures of what it looked like in the 19th century before being gutted by fire during WW2.
Its now almost totally reclaimed by nature, the place reminded me of the Angkot Wat temples in Cambodia, how it appeared from within the trees as yoou get nearer to it.
The rain had done its usual welsh worst and the ground was boggy, you have to walk a little way to get to it and finding firm ground proved difficult in some places. The gatehouse was the first building and looked quite grand, guarding the small bridge that spanned the road beneath.
The actual mansion would have been impressive in its day, the inside had deteriorated to leave expanses of space, the walls exposing brickwork and open fireplaces showing where the wooden beams of the floor would have sat.
Inside the house, ferns and other plants grew freely like an open greenhouse, the lack of colour in the stonework made the mansion almost fade into the forest and being a damp and overcast day probably helped this too. It wasnt long before the skies opened up and rain started to add to the water in the puddles.
A comical fall on one of the moss ridden steps put an end to this explore
By Darren Nisbett
