Langland Bay Photo

Llan-y-Llan

Built in 1856 for Henry Crawshay, ironmaster of Cinderford in the Forest of Dean, former manager of the Hirwaun ironworks, and son of William Crawshay II of Cyfarthfa Castle in Merthyr Tydfil. The original 2-storey house, known as Llan-y-llan, was Gothic in style with polychrome dressings and a tower to the entrance front. Crawshay died in 1879 and 10 years later the house became the Langland Castle Hotel, when it was considerably enlarged in a similar style by John Norton of London, who added a third storey and extended the house on the W side, maintaining the E side as the entrance front. Later the hotel was owned by Evan Walters of Llandrindod Wells, but in 1922 it was sold to the Workingmen's Club and Institute Union for a convalescent home. After a period of closure it has been renamed Langland Bay Manor and been converted into 27 luxury apartments.

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