A Tudor mansion located within the Welsh valleys and ‘haunted by a ghost who solely reveals herself to single males’ has hit the marketplace for £1.6million.
The Grade-II listed Derwydd Mansion gives fourteen bedrooms, 4 bogs, a separate self-contained cottage for friends and 12,758 sq. ft of area.
However any potential purchaser should recover from the legend of the White Girl who apparently haunts the property and historically seems to single males.
The story of Gwen Vaughan, as she is formally identified, has been handed down from era to era.
It’s mentioned that earlier than the demise of the top of the household, the ghost of the White Girl seems by the window within the room of Sir Rhys ap Thomas — the house’s former proprietor.
The girl is claimed to face within the window with one arm on the sill and the opposite pointing in a special course.
First showing within the historical past books of 1485, Derwydd Mansion has the lineage of a distinguished nation house.
It was as soon as owned by Tudor knight Sir Rhys ap Thomas who was mentioned to have sheltered Henry Tudor on the best way to Bosworth.
An exterior shot of Derwydd Mansion (pictured) which is Grade II listed and and dates again to the fifteenth century
One of many reception rooms within the mansion that includes a picket staircase with chairs and a stained glass window
A gallery room within the property with a round desk and laced white material
One of many bedrooms within the property which boasts giant home windows, a settee and two armchairs
It’s mentioned that when Henry Tudor landed at Milford Haven to assert the crown from Richard III and finish the Warfare of the Roses, he was entertained at Derwydd earlier than his victory on the Battle of Bosworth.
The connection is commemorated in a sculpture of a defend within the King’s Room.
It’s believed the home was as soon as within the possession of Sir Henry Vaughan of close by Golden Grove by marriage to Sage, granddaughter of Rhydderch in 1603.
Vaughan was Excessive Sheriff in 1620 and was knighted in 1632. However Vaughan was captured on the Battle of Naseby throughout the English Civil Warfare when he was sentenced to fifteen years in jail.
The home handed, once more by marriage, to Sir Thomas Stepney of Llanelli within the early 18th Century, after which within the mid 18th Century to Joseph Gulston and ultimately to Stepney Gulston.
Adjoining to the stone cottage is a listed greenhouse that has a peach tree and vines that’s mentioned to be the one of many largest Messenger greenhouses in Wales. The cottage seems on the Tithe map of 1876.
Following Sotheby’s on-site sale of the historic contents of Derwydd Mansion in 1998, the property was bought to an area businessman in 1999 as a result of Pleasure Stepney-Gulston — the widowed proprietor — had no inheritor to the property.
The prevailing home, nonetheless, is basically a later Tudor mansion, and at one time possessed two wings to the west facet.
In 1670 it was described as a home of 18 hearths, making it one of many largest within the Carmarthenshire.
Highlights of the house embody the library generally known as ‘the King’s Room’, seven reception rooms, a sundial and a ‘secret’ wooden.
A grand sitting space within the property with two sofas and a fire, in addition to stone carvings
A bed room with three home windows and a double mattress within the centre of the room
A grand hallway within the property which has a grand staircase and purple leather-based couch
An exterior shot of the property showcasing the grounds
The property has a separate cottage (pictured) which will be rented out as a vacation let or used for friends
The kitchen within the property which has all facilities together with an oven, a sink and cupboard space
A sitting room within the property which features a purple wall hearth and many pure mild
The cellar bar within the property with a choice of wines and spirits on present
The itemizing by Sotheby’s reads: ‘Derwydd Mansion is ready in a rural location solely a few mile west of the hamlet of Derwydd within the historic county of Carmarthenshire in south-west Wales, well-known for its castles and Towy River.
‘Though having fun with a rural side it’s handy to native cities together with the favored market city of Llandeilo (about 4 miles to the north) with outlets and close by nationwide railway providers at Ffairfach station (solely about three miles away from Derwydd Mansion).
‘The city of Ammanford with main and secondary colleges can be solely about 4 miles to the south-east whereas the A48 M4 hyperlink street is about six miles to the south-west offering fast entry to south Wales (Swansea about 22 miles and Cardiff about 65 miles) the Severn Bridge and into England.
‘For those who benefit from the outside the encompassing countryside gives a wealth of areas to discover together with Dinefwr Park Nationwide Nature reserve owned by the Nationwide Belief, quite a few castles together with Dinefwr and Carreg Cennen, the previous Brecon Beacons Nationwide Park (now referred to as Bannau Brycheiniog Nationwide Park) and the Nationwide Botanic Backyard of Wales.’
Since February 2022 the gardens are actually a Registered Historic Park and Backyard Grade II.
The property’s hyperlinks to the supernatural have been mentioned on the social media web site Reddit.
One commenter mentioned ‘Oh I simply know that complete place is stuffed with mysterious chilly spots’.
One other replied with ‘EPC ranking of G, for ghost’.
‘I get pleasure from how she solely haunts single males,’ mentioned one other.
One other responded with ‘Gwen sounds beautiful, positive she’d be good in case you give her the odd single man to hang-out. 10/10 would purchase if I had £1.6m’.
A 3rd commented ‘I believe this place is superb, and I might be in if it was for £1.6m and them pesky youngsters chasing the Girl in White!’
