 Mae'r angen o'r cyflaen, e'n holl o'r ymddangos i yw'r ymddangos i'w ni'n gweld o'r bwrdd. Roeddech chi'n gweld yn gwneud hynny? Yn ymddangos i'r ymddangos i'w gweld, ysgol ymddangos i'w gweld o'r bwrdd yn y bwysig hynny, ond mae'n dda yn ymddangos i'w bwysig hynny, yn gweithio gyd yn ddwy, sydd ymddangos i'w bwysig yw'r gwrdd, a'r cyflaen ymddangos i'w bwrdd yn y bwrdd. Mae'r eich cerddwyd yn 1994 ar gyfer gwahodraeth a'r cefnog i'r llwyfel ym mwrdd ystod. Mae'r newyddau fydd gweithio fydd ym Lake Monmouth o Abertsi GŽrwyddiadau. Mae'r ffair ac oedd ychydig i'n nesaf. Mae dros unig oedd y ddweud gyflym yn dwy'n dwych. Mae'r ddweud gyflym o'r gwynhau cyffredin, sy'n meddwl i'r drefnod am y marry. Mae'r ddweud yn ein gyform ac yn y dychydig yn ein bwyllgrfyr. Cymru ei ddyn nhw'n cyfrifio ar y cyfreidio ar y broses sydd yn cyfrifio ar y broses. Mae'r hwn yma yn gwybod ar gyfer yr yrwrodd ar y debyg oedd, ac mae'r gweithio ar y cwmddianiaeth yn cyfrifio ar y broses. Mae'r hwn yn cyfrifio ar y cwmddian a'r yng Nghymru yn cyfrifio ar yr yrwrodd ar y broses. Mae'r hwn yn cyfrifio ar y broses, mewn cyfrifio ar yr yng nghylch. Gwneud o'r gweithio, yma, mae'n gweithio eraill, mae'r gadeffod yn ffwrdd ar y gwasanaeth neu'r gwasanaeth wedi'i ddweud y gwasanaeth ac mae'r gwybod sydd yn fwy o'r carton. Diolch i'w wneud yma yw'r troi yn 2010, nid yw'r troi wedi'n credu'n mynd arall, felly mae'r cadw yma i gyfnodol. Rwy'n cymdeinol i'r adeiladau yma'r adeiladau o fewn wedi'i gwneud ac yma'r adeiladau o'r gwneud wedi cael ei ddylayr. Nid nid wedi gwneud o'r adeiladau o'r adeiladau o'r adeiladau arall oherwydd y 2008 tydd ar y mertyn sy'n ganangodd ac yn gwybod i'r adeiladau yma ar y maen nhw, ac mae'r adeiladau o'r adeiladau sy'n gwneud wedi'i ddweud i hyn o'r adeiladau o'r adeiladau ar y maen nhw. I sought to research Troy's architectural and design landscape history as far as I was able to before the house became even more fragile and sourced forever. I used a multi-mathod approach that included archaeology, the watch poetry of the mobility and various types of pictorial and documentary searches. The few publications that do insist on Troy always show this section of the house, which because it faces north, I call the north range. And the publications also usually say that the house was built by Henry Sunset, first to be preferred, but this is only partly true. It's truly built this north range, but it's actually joined to substantially more building among the Troy house. But this connection with the both of us was my starting point in research and I approached Wellington House archives for access. Those archives contain some Troy's state accounts from the 17th century and will also hold the Sunset final papers and all of those prove useful. I found that amongst the accounts for 1681-84, that the first Duke had indeed commissioned the north range to then Troy House Miranda and so on, fitting as his son Eir's first marriage of home, a work of some £3,000. And then I just felt a letter written by the first Duke of Oakland to the first Duchess, where he says that he's approaching a Robert Moran to give advice on the structure of the new building Troy House. And simultaneously it seems that he was also asking for advice from Robert Moran to make changes to the house that Chelsea, none of this was previously known in the architectural literature. So that was a good golden moment and shortly afterwards I had a note and I discovered one of the family letters which seemed to explain to my mind that Troy did indeed go to a slow decline after the date when this letter was written. It was a pivotal moment in Troy's history and because of that I am going to read this letter too. It's written at four o'clock in the morning on the 13th of July 1698 by Rebecca Marshiness of Worcester. She was married to the first Duke's only surviving son and heir and they've made Troy their marital home. She's writing this letter to her mother-in-law, so it's the first Duchess at Oakland, who was in residence at Buckinghamton. And Rebecca is writing this from her cousin's house at the local, which is now on the heritage of Montchagordia. She addresses her mother-in-law as Madam, times have changed, and she writes this. I'm into so much trouble and concern for my Lord, that's Charles, a husband, that I guess know what I write. My Lord came here yesterday to church. We went through Kent soon after seven in the evening, designed to return to Troy, but it pleased God the horse is turning too short, the coach must run out of the box. The horse has run away down here and over turned the coach before the postigion could stop them, and my Lord, apprehending the danger we were in, jumped out of the coach. The coach will mist him very narrowly. He has bruised his thigh very much, but Dr Tyler who is with him hopes there is nothing out, nothing broken. My Lord is very faint and complains much for the sickness in his stomach and has had yet, but an ill night. I'm coming on to the second page now, where I've got to here, ill night. He was left blood about 12 o'clock when Mr Tyler came. I have presumed to send my Lord's Duke servant, by Bristol, to hasten Dr Basker on the road. He was the Duke's doctor. I have determined most humble thanks to my Lord Duke out of the grace, for your great famous to the children, begging your grace his pardon for this stupid letter. Well, we don't know if the Duke's doctor actually arrived to care for Charles, but we do know that Charles died later that day, aged just 38. And this famous family portrait of the first Duke and the family shows Charles at the end here. This is the first Duke, the first Duchess. They have three daughters and two sons, but little are they here, pre-deceased Charles. And Charles, although he chose Troy as the marital home, Charles had been the administrator of the Duke's extensive Welsh estates. Troy had served as an administrative centre, and when Charles was killed and there was no son heir to take on the role of administrator, because his son was only four years old at the time when he was being brought up at Buckington, it was decided to put stewards in to Troy to carry on Charles's work. Anything of real value at Troy, painting's furniture, was transferred to Buckington House, and the stewards that they appointed were the succeeding sectionists only occupied four rooms in Troy. Although succeeding successive generations, only the fifth, sixth and eighth Dukes of Ofer periodically resided at Troy, many founding purposes and fishing on the nearby river Rhine. And it's for that reason that when John Bean visited Troy in 1781, he's the acid writer of the Troynton diaries, he said that the rooms were so barely furnished and he felt it no bridge of manors to go and lodging in old places. So that date of 1698 is key in Troy's history. It did start a steady decline. Until 1901, when it decided, as was common for the other country estates in the 20th century, both had decided that they would auction off the Troy estate and many other ownership properties that they owned at that time. The auction was actually instigated by the aid to do with air. Troy farm sold the streets away. The house sold the estate during 1902, as did the wall garden. And if a soldier lived with Arnott, who first leases it and then eventually sells it to same group of people in 1906, there were French-enticed nuns escaping religious persecution in France, Liber of the Order of Our Aiding of Charity and Refuge at South Floor on Samor, and you might well ask, how did nuns, over there, know in a tiny place in Monmouthshire that there was a Troy house up there, so all would come clear. This is the only picture I could find of a nun actually at Troy house, where Troy house is showing the background, and I understand the wall garden. I was interested in the reballs of the two of them. There was one here, obviously, and another one close to the house. Calvin said they were 17th century, and to my mind they looked earlier, so I approached the B Association to see if they registered these reballs, fortunately they had, they visited when they took this picture in 1957. And in their registration of that date they say that they are 16th century, that pleased me enormously because I thought they were probably from that date, not only that, but they looked contemporary with the walls of the wall garden, which had also been reckoned to be 17th century. I think they were earlier than that. They threw the house into a refuge of the girls in need of a home, but they also run it as a boarding and laundry. This picture is from a little book in Monmouth Museum, that's the vehicle that they use for those activities. During the time that they were there, members passed on, so the nuns created this little cemetery in the wall garden, furthest point away from the house, where if you look carefully, you can see the outline of the pillar here, if you look from a big stone, and then another one here. So this is the original entrance to the wall garden, they blocked that, and there are 25 souls buried here, and as I discovered by Chapman Dean's, the original Mother Superior came from France to set up a complex that is buried here, sister Mary of the Blessed Sacrament, who died in 1915 in her sixties. At that time, at Troy, which was from 1902 until 1977, they made new changes to the historic house, shown here, if you can get your eye in it, as what do I have a capital letter T? What they did in the 1960s, because one of the nuns seems to have come into some substantial inheritance, was to build a chapel and choistus, which they attached to the historic house on this side, on the east side of the house, and then on the other side, they attached to the theatre, to the baritress, because they run the Convertasa School of the Girls. A hospital, a garage, a store, and a substantial covered claims area. Here's the boundary between the house and the farm, and you can see from this how exceptionally close the farm has here is to the historic house of Troy. It, in turn, is joined to a stone barn, and then it was joined to another stone building to enclose what we now call the farm yard, but in the 1950s were there a farmer demolished part of it to get it in uptownism. And that struggle financially, during a whole time that they were there from 1902 to 1977, when it's decided that they will sell the house in the War Garden and nearby Eltrich House, which they purchased in 1906. It's from this point that the estate becomes even more fractured in its ownership. The house sells to a gentleman who still owns the house, although it has never lived in it, has caretaker, who, amazingly, is occupying the same rooms in the North Range that Stuart did in the late 17th century. The War Garden was sold to someone else who built a barn, though in that new garden, a nearby Eltrich House sold to another couple who still own it. In 1983, the owner of Troy House leases it to two special needs teachers, who take a year to repair the building, and then open a school as a special school for boys with the first federal going in in 1984. Well, when the rents have substantially increased, it's no longer financially viable, and that special school closes in 1991. Then, as the book really said, 2008, the planning application is submitted to turn the house into flats. That was passed last year by Monmouthshire County Council, but it was immediately called in by the world government. It's then going to appeal at the beginning of this year and we will work with the outcome. Meanwhile, the fabric of Troy is very fragile with severe water penetration to expect that three of the beautiful past ceilings, two of them, are no longer in existence. However, the house itself, apart from what I've just said, is largely unchanged since that fatal accident in 1698. That's the recent history. I was interested to know how far back did I take the history of Troy, and in that respect, it leaves the ethical records to prove useful. I found that a Breton, called when I can be corrected on this later, but I'll pronounce it this name correctly, was found. Founded a Benedictine Priory of Monmouth with assistance from William of Dole, Abbottos, San Florent, Assamore, and that happened in 1070, now you know how the nuns knew about Troy being up for sale in 1902, two Catholic communities continued contact. Rans to the Abbey of Sobel were made by Bethanol with several churches along the Petrofi River. A many 12th century terrier of this abbey's possessions in Britain, Chelsea was claiming as a possession a church at Troy. This is separate to Middle Troy, which is another village of Burma on the Trotlin. And this church at Troy is identified as St John of Troyer, T-R-O-I-A. Troyers have various names across time, Troy Parva and Little Troy, to distinguish it from the bigger Middle Troy. A church at Troyer is also listed in the taxations of 1254 and 1291. And a reference to the church also appears in the 1404 register of Bishop Richard Clifford of Woodstuff, where the entry states 1404 Wrector Hugh Vaughan of St John Baptist of Troyer. So as a history of the church, at least going back to the mid-12th century terrier, I was interested to know what's been dwelling actually associated with this church. It was at least 100 metres from the house, on the banks of the trophy, where the remains of a water-driven medieval mill. And first by several pieces of medieval pottery have been found by the professional body of a model of archaeologist Steve Clark who is a fellow. The farmhouse and barn around the current farm yard also appeared to date from medieval times. This is the farmhouse. It's an old south alignment. And it's drawing at bright angles to the stone barn, which to my mind looks as if it was originally a wooden structure, which later was infield with stone. This early photograph of Troy shows it during its last years in ownership of both of those. It shows them all frame that you can also see behind it some of the older portion of Troy's house. God, that's really well attended. And then this is the perimeter of our wall, where this side of it here is that track from the main road. And it continues on around the house and enters the farm yard where this slide is shown. So the farmhouse on the right. And then the second elevation of Troy is facing you. And you can't see anything at all of the north range. And if you think that this chimney is sticking out of the lorry, which is permanently parked in a farm yard, knows a lot, it's attached to this littlest section of Troy house closest to the farm yard and the farm buildings. And it's whether nuns have their wanderings to do with the boiler system. If you look carefully, there appears to be an opening here. There's an uproar of ivy here. And there is an old photograph of this entrance to Troy house from the farm yard. But it's very, very foggy, not fit for showing you that my artist's cousin, bless her, did this little watercolour to show what it was trying to show. So, yes, we've got stone pillars we've bought on top. And the yellow is where the chapel was built. Chapel and oysters in the 1960s by our nuns. And this is the oldest door in Troy house, but it's not in its original position. I found that what will be shown later to be the oldest part of Troy, where they have their laundry, is spotted life in there. But when we knew this building as a building, it wasn't wide enough for that purpose, to get clothes in and out, so it took it off, maybe open wide and put it in here. But the cloister's position makes it really difficult to do any archaeology in this area. This is before cloister's and chapel were built. The Royal Commission, Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales, visited in the 1950s and took this photograph. The nuns used this area before cloister's and chapel's built as a private garment area. The girls weren't allowed in here and these rooms here are the ones that we'll see later as being through. They contain Jacobian plaster ceilings, so they used these as the key reception areas. This block here is from the 8th Duke's time, Victorian time. It's a bathroom block, stuck onto this Troy house. So over here is the section used as a laundry. But most of this, in my view, given limited access, is tuned up, but with Jacobian brandisons. And sticking out here into the garment area is the first Duke of Colfords. Stella, which joins the old part of Troy house to the nong friend built in 1584. This wall also, if you look carefully, renders very similar. That's to join the old to the new, so to speak. And if you look here, it looks as if it's an exposed rental and exposed floor joist. And to my mind, I think that this part of Troy house extended across this garment area. And when the old range was built, I think most likely it was knocked down, perhaps to give more light to the stairwell. Because if you look at the chimney stack, it's got coins. Very similar in design in the dimensions and material use, as the coins on this stairwell add on the corners of the nong friend. East elevation of Troy house. And we've got a really ugly juxtaposition of the north range, with six, three stories. And the older part of Troy house, which I think is probably two of the Jacobian brandisons. And that's Astral. There's the chapel attached to it. This was hard, which meant that stuck a moment. But this juxtaposition of two, highly different architectural styles, is typical of the first two, you see it in various places of Buckington house. Inside the stairwell, where the staircase in its design is typical for the late 17th century, it goes up a basement, right up to the attic. Out of each of the three floors of the north range, the Waddenville, you get little fighter steps to take them into the older part of Troy house, the nearest floor of the four story structure. This is my attempt at a building face plan. So remembering that Troy house resembles a capital letter T, north is to the top of the screen. So the big bits are the 1681 to 4 build. So the north range constitutes most of the top of the T. There's the stairwell, and there's the connecting wall to join on to the older part of Troy down here. I still think this is two done. And that's where the Jacobian plaster ceilings are. That's the bathroom wall. And then, although this wall is older than the north range, it appears that when the north range is built, they alter the windows here, perhaps to make it look more coherent as a design, when viewed from this direction. There's also a cross swing here, where that's where I think they actually continue to flow out as the doctor does. And then down here I can feel that this is medieval. This is where the nuns have their laundry. There's plasterboard inside hiding the original wall. And then on the other side is where the nuns have the theatre. And there's plasterboard there. But there is a gap between the original wall and that plasterboard. So I was able to squeeze into it and walking along that gap along here. There are window openings which are completely hidden from view. And they contain window grills, metal ones, which to my mind look medieval in design. There's an awful lot more could be done on the architectural history of Troy. And access, not being able to access it, is a little frustration. So how has this state laid out? We've got two state maps of the earliest, unfortunately, it was only 1712, next one, 1765. There's a surviving time map of 1845, a very detailed first edition of OES map, 1881. This is the earliest state map of 1712. It's only eight-five sites and yet it's got this lovely little sketch of the North Range, which would only have been about 30 years old at the time, and it's shown us a goat. The house is here. All the fields stretching out towards Redlands show between the largest section here. The most ancient route to Troy is not directly from Mormon, it's not directly from Mormon, but from the... Mormon to Redlands Road. There's a termoth that goes as a trellur in Chepster, which itself is a very ancient route. And to get to Troy House originally, you went off that Mormon to Chepster route, passed the wall garden and you ended up actually closer to the farm and you did the house. You see the same arrangement in the next state map, 1765, where the house is here, in a large barn. And then with the capital entity, the oldest bit closest to the farm yard, where that's the farmhouse, stone barn, and largely now demolished stone building here. So we're coming off, again, the same arrangement, passed the wall garden, which is shown on this state map as a cherry water. Actually I found evidence that it was created as a cherry water back in the 16th century. And then the truck ends here, not largely demolished building, and largely even more so you can see, farmhouse, stone barn. Couldn't really, but it just ended there, it must be a way into the farm yard, it's the key access route to Troy. So I put an adlet in the local library of the farmhouse, and a dear elderly lady answered and said, she'd been living, should have lived, at Troy Farmhouse before the Second World War, and had a photograph of this building, and the only hole in that building was this Gothic archway. So it would come down a trap through this Gothic archway, and bits of this molding actually were still on the floor, in the farm yard. It'd come into the farm yard, which actually to my mind was an anti-reception courtyard. Where you'd get off your horse, if you turned left, you were then faced by that kind of watercolour entrance, remember, and you could access the oldest part of Troy's house. We've got a similar arrangement here, whereas a parallel art trudig, a house not far from Troy, it's typical of late medieval Tudor, and even into the Jacobian period, to have houses surrounded by courtynards, where here we've got the main route in, this is La Mora, and the Demyche. We've got an anti-reception courtyard, where you'd get off your horse, and we've even got stone pillars and walls like Troy. You'd go into an anti-reception courtyard before you gain access to the house, and the holes surrounded by courtynards, some for the pleasure gardens, others for porches. If you look back at this statement for 1765, anti-reception courtyard, I think that this time of farmhouse wasn't just a service building that was used as a residence as well. In a reception courtyard, where that ancient door was positioned, an inner area, which I think at this time, is most likely a private garden area, because it's overlooked by key reception rooms with those checkeredly and ceilings. But when you look at the aerial photograph, that's the farm yard, chuckled oysters, masking the inner reception courtyard, we've got courtyard upon courtyard, all these stone walls, surviving patched of places with bricks. We've even got a smaller courtyard here. There's the remains of another one here, and there was an ornamental stone archway here. However, it didn't always work out. Now that we've looked at the ownership history of Troy, and I thought it might actually shed light on who would have been in a position with stability in the land, and sufficient wealth to engage in building and landscaping activity. The earliest mention of an owner was this one, Manor of Troy or Troy of Harlem. It was in the ownership of the Declare family, Earl's of Gloucester and Hartford, in 1314, and there was certainly a Troy Church on site. So John's screwed them all. We made them all familiar with the association with the Church Court in Herodfordshire. It was with the Lord of Troy at Barbett in 1425, and he married Alain Gengor's daughter. I could find no reference to any accounts or any documentation to support the view that building and landscaping activity took place during their ownership. However, the next owner certainly did build. So William Herbert of Troy was the illegitimate son of the Penbroke, who was a key influence in the history of Wales in the early period. In fact, William Herbert of Troy inherited his father's attributes rather more effectively than the legitimate heir, and he was great supporter of Henry VII. His second wife actually was Blanche Lady Troy, who when William died in 1988, meant that she had responsibility for the early education of three future sovereigns. So we've got a lot of important people living in Troy, and William Herbert, most of the children part of Troy House, he built a walk garden of councillors sending men to flartus to go to school trees. He built us both a chapel as it survived and he built a property of Chester. And his influence in Wales went in particular on behalf of Henry VII was acknowledged for the royal visit in August 1502, not previously recognised. William would have ensured that the house was suitable for a royal visit. And both Henry VII and Elizabeth of York stayed five days before moving on back and castle. And it wasn't a ragam that became the held history council meeting, it was at Troy. An inventory, which is housed at the National Archives, not very well known inventory, when I transcribed it the first time, showed that it had echoes of that royal visit. Although it's 50 years so years on from the royal visit, it still refers to chambers as the Queen's chambers, the Queen's chambers. And knowing that the son and heir of William Charles made very little alterations to Troy, I think it gives a picture of what Troy would be like inside the house in 1502. So the King had three chambers, that's the transcription of one chamber called the King's Chamber. Queen had two, King had three and all of them were lined up with baras capacitors. They're expensive. How many beds were silk hangings, inverts curtains, rustic, blue and green and they had silk braids on them. So really very good furniture. When William dies, his son Charles inherits and then when he dies his oldest married daughter inherits Troy, Joe James and then in Charles's will he says that if his debts he sells the estate to cover them, which he does. And she sells Troy perhaps the estate to Edward Somerset, a key courtier in the courts of Elizabeth and then even more important courtier for James I of England. If you look carefully, the medallion as a little white horse with a man of strife, he was master of the horse to Elizabeth and he controlled all the events in court. There's all the events in court courses. He fascinates me because of his support for the Jesuits. The Welsh Mission was a Jesuit organisation that wanted a better work that encompassed not just Wales but all of the West Country and Edward allowed them to settle and administer the Welsh Mission from the castle of Rathen and when it became rather too uncomfortable for that to continue surrounded as they were by the Protestant area he gave them their his estate on a river at the con. Llanrothol, another where that letter was written. I don't think the reason was my fear anyway. Why Edward was anxious to purchase the whole of the Troy estate is that it was strategically useful for his clandestine Jesuit activities. 1600 it's only shortly after Robert Jones had bought in for a continent for Europe to set up the Welsh Mission. Edward was Admiral of the Seventh he controlled all the shipping up here. He had owned Chexford Castle and had a private port while subject to customs. If you went up the river line he had control over the shipping there. It was sooner Troy after they entered the river line and if you can continue you are on to the from the line you are on to the river model all the way up to the con. Strategically being important and indeed there are two priest holes at Troy which the nuns blocked before they left in 1977. Edward gave Troy estate to his sons and our son said who married right by 1609 and then as they did in those days went off on a continental tour. He remembered a local heiress Elizabeth Pell who was the daughter of Edward Steward who lived at Troy and it's Charles who substantially altered Troy's house at the beginning of the 17th century not just the house, his garden and surrounding landscape and after it closed the ceilings are down to him playing back for the expert on plaster ceilings that the date leads then no later than 1620 and that fits in when Charles came back from his tour in 1612 it seems that they started to nest they started to improve the house this is one of the plaster ceilings with a lot of plaster pedestal one upstairs and the other one downstairs where this pedestal and the design of the plaster I was able to compare it with this old photograph of the oak room at Troy this room with that pedestal and what we've done is to hand an height fitting from it when it came into the 1601 auction the both that stripped the room at Troy at this alley and took it to badminton where at the lines of room to this day finally the design landscape history which is really why I got interested in Troy in the first place and this is an exedra garden this is what garden historians call such an arrangement all it means is that there's a rectangle that then ends in the devil in the center circle and the landscape the east side of the house with wigglypars and rockerys none of that's visible now it did it in the 1960s and as soon as I saw that old photograph it reminded me of the 1712 estate map which on the same side of the house shows an exedra garden comes out has a shoulder on it before it curves round another shoulder and then it comes back actually a little bit further away from the house you see it again on the 1765 one same side stretching out towards the river troffin returning and here more accurately drawn about halfway around what we now call the farmhouse an exedra garden would have been designed as a formal garden and in 1712 we've got orchards here but it's still a formal garden but when you look at this one now it's being put down to orchard same as the surrounding garden and I think the reason for that is after that tragic accident you wouldn't want to maintain a formal garden which is highly highly costly, really costly so then just the family weren't living there anymore it was decided to turn this into a more productive garden I wanted to know whether the none exedra garden was on the same footprint as the historic one so during that overlays and accommodating the differences in scale there's the none exedra garden I hope that shows up for you and it sits on the same boundary the north boundary as the historic one which goes further towards the troffin and then returns much further back from the house to look like this the historic exedra this is from a difficult return of the stratus and sped and it shows a typical exedra garden with shoulders written fully planted a ffauctin would have been doing better and even like the Gilmore 1712 map of Troy at the midpoint of the Devgnu we've got an avenue with a tree stretching down not here troffin goes across the troffin and then out to the wider landscape this painting is held at Monmouth Museum I haven't got it in short because it must now be valued really quite a lot of money it shows the east side where the exedra garden lay before the first Duke started altering Troy's house so or less as it was in the time that childs were created across the seas and accordingly there are trees in the way to prevent any sight of the exedra garden but if you look here peeking out there's a little garden Eric's a courtyard with a quadripartite garden arrangement probably an earlier Tudor garden I've deepened up recitivity in the Narnsep exedra garden and found nothing other than their varied pathways makes sense because apart in the 1930s they took all the trees out and plowed it to have probably plowed out anything of earlier dates a farmhouse a garden courtyard closest to the house I found no evidence of varied pathways or walls but it did come across in the recitivity as if the soil was compressed in that quadripartite arrangement of parts so I think I'm just peeking up there no paving as such but a progression of the soil with those pathways Warp garden the Narnsep cemetery is here the original entrance isn't found in the middle of that wall whereas there is a decorative one here inserted in the pre-existing wall by childs who did the plaster sealings it looks like this from the outside and when we look at the pediment it's got the initials of the couple Jasmine, Elizabeth, Sansa lovely little flower and guests being taken through this entrance into the wall garden would have read the corda coca as meaning that bounty within and then extract work to the core of Lake Tudor Jacobian period inside the wall garden that's what the entrance looks like is actually a little building barrel roof so if you look at your head wet as you walk through it the water drains down the sides there's the other b-ball but amazingly there's all this rusticated molding which again childs would have seen on his continental tour and it's very timely the 1612 return from continental tour an altering joyhouse cos it's then that Sebastian Osirio's treatise on architecture was published in English for the first time and it's literally like a pattern book so if you've got rusticated molding turn to this page there it is and there it is in situ a Troy I've now come across anything similar in any other building in Wales or England and there's anybody before me now that can tell me about it please speak to me financially Finally taking you out into the wider landscape we've got a wooded ridge here high above Troy house located here and it echoes the fact that it was the site of the original drear park, Troy Park Wood and still remaining we've got bits of the original stone in closing wall here parts which are as tall as me but I want to take you to a little ruined building which is located 300 metres from the house on rising ground it's ruined taking over my mind but it's ashlar and the spring course here is just like the spring course on a little entrance building so I'm pretty sure that this was also built by Charles Sarser who did plaster ceilings Cadwch said this is a game larder but when you just scrape a little soil away from the surface there's an exposed leather pipe with a broken end there's another one on the opposite wall going out of the building so what this is is a conduit house there would have been no leather tank between the broken ends of the pipe and water from the springs high up on the ridge would have been channeled down leather pipes because this is a rich estate collected in the tank and then in a series of stockpods it had to flow down to the house so he also did Charles see to make water supply there's another room conduit house on the landscape as well and then during the civil war Charles stayed at Troy and received paintings of wood paneling from Raddon when it was under siege in 1646 Charles died in 1665 and left Troy to Henry who would become the first Duke of Oak Charles lived there for a while when he returned from exile and before he then inherited badminton which then became the main family seat and we've come full circle because you know that he then had a rather sized Troy but he's only survived in southern air and a fatal accident so overall the house was pleasure gardens the war garden, the farm and the surrounding apartment are shown to be a rare surviving example particularly in Wales of a medieval estate with Tudor, Jefford Baird and Carol Leann a brandisman and if you could go back to its last really great hater just before that awful accident and we come out to the house on the east side into that ancient exedra garden we'll walk through it and see what it looks like so it's formerly planted it's late 17th century we haven't heard of the capability around yet there's a difference in the level there which still exists to this day there's a fountain that I can't prove existed but any arresteffat worthy sold would have had one in these exedra gardens and then if you remember and into points of the curve there's an avenue of trees stretching out across the troffing further on into the wider landscape and then as we swing round to look at the east side of the house against the walls that would have been found through trees and roses statues which would be classical by now not heraldics though hedging used to create little some houses with time orange trees to relate 17th century so there's the north range Hald the old part, the medieval part and that entrance there before the chapels boat is still in many memory and map regression which I haven't told you about and surveys showed on this side of the house but it was a huge water park there again a characteristic relate 17th century led by the nearby river troffing orchards, beyond still these walls existing and as we come to look back down in front of the north range it's stockoed and that shows up very well the red sandstone swarms of the windows which is still there and we've got the Beauford crest the Port Cullis which in the 1960s came loose and the nuns were in danger of being guilty of their retirement right then so they took it down and put the statue of Virgin Mary which unlike a lot of the houses actually survived this day thank you for listening