Plas Machen Manor House (Side View)

Another awful rainy day, but I managed to get out for a walk locally for an hour between the rain spells.

I'm in the middle of doing a project on Plas Machen Manor House, for it's present owner who bought it within the last year off a farmer friend of mine who now lives in the small cottage. The aim is to get differing views through the seasons.

I took this one from the West of the house about a quarter of a mile away.

It's a fascinating manor house that is being sympathetically refurbished.

Plas Machen, the Elizabethan manor house, was built in 1490 by Thomas Morgan, Esquire to the Body of Henry VII. But after Tredegar House was built it became a tenanted house and it lost a lot of its glories over the centuries. Today it is a farmhouse and a third of its original size, but even so it has 20 rooms.

There is a rumour that an underground passage connects it to Ruperra Castle, but distance and terrain make this unlikely. It is best seen from the Draethen to Michaelstone road where its distinctive chimneys reach up from a bygone age.