Temple Druid
house in Maenclochog, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Temple Druid is a grade II listed John Nash house in west Wales, Pembrokeshire, Great Britain.
Temple Druid, named after a series of standing stones and cromlech, is a house located about 3⁄4 of mile (1.2 km) east of the village of Maenclochog.
History
The house was designed and built for Henry Bulkeley by John Nash, architect to the Prince Regent, in c1795. The site was originally called Bwlch-y-Clawdd (Gap in the Hedge) but was renamed when the house was built. The house was designed as a hunting lodge, with stables and coach houses. The estate also included a farmhouse and three cottages which continue to be used.
Bulkeley lived in the house from 1806 until his death in 1821. Unfortunately the house was shortly after dismantled and the particulars of the house sold. The sales notice, described in the Cambrian Journal in 1821 states the following" An "excellent mansion house" on three floors, it contained six apartments for servants in the attic, eight bedrooms with three dressing rooms and a nursery on the first floor, and a "handsome drawing room", dining parlour, breakfast parlour, offices and "principal apartments fitted up with statuary marble chimney pieces" on the ground floor. The staircase is described as geometrical and made of stone, leading up to an elegant gallery."
The current house represents work done in c1830 when significant changes were made to the fabric of the building.
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