Plas Dinam Country House
Victorian mansion or family home? Dinam is both.
Llandinam, Powys, SY17 5DG
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Plas Dinam was designed and built by the renowned London based architect W E Nesfield in 1873-74 for Captain Offley Crewe-Read, deputy lieutenant of the county and JP, and a descendant of the ancient Crewe family of Flintshire and Cheshire. The family did not ever actually live at Plas Dinam, and sold it when they ran into financial difficulty.
In 1884 Plas Dinam was bought by David Davies of Llandinam. Despite having been born into a humble family and starting work as a sawyer, David Davies went on to make a considerable fortune building the new railway line across Wales. He played a major role in the construction of the Newtown to Aberystwyth railway, and then turned his attention to the rapidly expanding coal industry.
For a short period during the war, Gordonstoun school was relocated here from Scotland to ensure the safety of the schoolboys. After the war the house accommodated an agricultural college
In 2001 a fire devastated the top floor of the house, and over two years parts of the roof and and house were rebuilt and much of the house was redecorated.
Lord and Lady Davies ‘downsized’ and moved out in 2011. Their daughter Eldrydd and her family returned from Australia to look after Plas Dinam and allow others to enjoy this wonderful house.
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