Old Beaupre Castle 28.1.11

[astro23]

Old Beaupre Castle is a ruined medieval fortified manor house located in the community of Llanfair, outside Cowbridge in Wales presently under the care of Cadw. It is known in historic documents under the names Beawpire, Bewerpere, Bewpyr and Y Bewpur.

Although called Old Beaupre Castle the structure is seen as a fortified manor house. The original house was an L-shaped building, now located within the inner courtyard, built circa 1300 and from this period until the 18th century it was owned by the Basset family. During the 16th century intensive remodeling was undertaken, started by Sir Rice Mansel, continued by William Basset and completed by William's son, Richard. This additional work added the impressive outer gatehouse, completed in 1586 and a storyed Renaissance porch, completed 1600, along with the buildings around the middle court.











Should look like this but was out of site due to conservation work...














and we stopped off in The Blue anchor in Aberthaw on the way home, A must see pub!!!

Thanks for looking

[boxfrenzy]

Definitely a place I would visit. Castles FTW

[judderman62]

^^^ what the reverend says.


also just seems to be a certain something about a lot of laces in Wales .... I do like Wales

[SilentHill]

Wales is deffo the place for ruins. I love this

[MJS]

like it

[Nicola]

Lovely!

[evilnoodle]

I like this very much

[simonix]

This place is so similar to a Tudor Manor House here in Norfolk, it is called Baconsthorpe Castle and is well worth a look, I have done a report in the past here on the forum.
Well done, these places are so interesting :-)

[sinnerman]

not a bad place to start, you could try Rupertera castle as well quite similar but worth a look

[astro23]

Thanks Sinnerman, I have already done a report on Ruppera? Castle, just haven't posted it up on the site, I want to go back there soon and take some more pics!