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- Garth was an important early gothic revival house in the township of Garth in Guilsfield in Montgomeryshire. In the 18th century it became the home of the Mytton family who had originally been Shrewsbury drapers, who derived their wealth from the Montgomeryshire woollen industry. They had settled at Pontysgawrhyd in Meifod and at Halston in Shropshire. The most famous members of the family were General Mytton, the Parliamentary Commander in the Civil War in the Marches and “Mad Jack Mytton”, the eccentric 19th-century squire of Halston. In 1809 a grandiose rebuilding scheme was started by Richard Mytton. However, this together with extravagant furnishing of the new house and reckless purchasing of surrounding farms, which culminated in the purchase of the Trefnannau estate in 1812 for £33,625, led to financial problems. The Myttons struggled to afford to live in style in this house, and it is likely that Richard Mytton's outlay on lands, the building of Garth and its furnishing cost nearly £100,000 The family continued to live in the house until it was damaged by fire in 1922. Thereafter, there was a gradual decline, leading to the sale of the remainder of the estate in August 1945 and the demolition of the house for salvage during the winter of 1946–7. (en)
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- c.1800 for Devereux Mytton. (en)
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- Garth, Guilsfield in 1796 (en)
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- Guilsfield, Montgomeryshire, Wales (en)
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- Location in Montgomeryshire (en)
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- ''The ground plan of these stables was designed by us in 1809 for the late Col. Mytton of Garth, Montgomeryshire; and it is proper to observe the principal object in view was, to provide accommodation for breeding and breaking of a superior description of riding horses. The situation on which these stables were placed was the summit of an elevated knoll, protruding from the side of a hill; and their effect was remarkably good from all the surrounding country. The elevation actually executed from our design was different from either of those now given , and, we need not say, much inferior; the later having been suggested and sketched for us by Barry, and prepared for the engraver by Mr Lamb. Fig 1702 is in the Italian style and fig 1703 is in Tudor Gothic. The form of a riding-house is generally that of a parallelogram:though that at Brighton, some in London and the veranda at Garth ...are circular.’’ (en)
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- John Claudius Loudon ‘’ Encyclopædia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture and Furniture.’’ Longmans, London. pp965 and 966 (en)
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- Garth was an important early gothic revival house in the township of Garth in Guilsfield in Montgomeryshire. In the 18th century it became the home of the Mytton family who had originally been Shrewsbury drapers, who derived their wealth from the Montgomeryshire woollen industry. They had settled at Pontysgawrhyd in Meifod and at Halston in Shropshire. The most famous members of the family were General Mytton, the Parliamentary Commander in the Civil War in the Marches and “Mad Jack Mytton”, the eccentric 19th-century squire of Halston. In 1809 a grandiose rebuilding scheme was started by Richard Mytton. However, this together with extravagant furnishing of the new house and reckless purchasing of surrounding farms, which culminated in the purchase of the Trefnannau estate in 1812 for £33, (en)
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