scolton manor

Name: scolton manor
Start: 2024-11-02T22:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-11-03T03:00:00+01:00
Location: Scolton Manor

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Sat Nov 02 2024 at 10:00 pm to Sun Nov 03 2024 at 03:00 am

UTC+01:00

Location

Scolton Manor | Haverfordwest, WA

From drawing room to servants’ hall, and from master bedroom to cellar, Scolton Manor presents a vivid panorama of nineteenth-century life in Wales.
The Scolton Manor that stands today is a Victorian construction completed in 1842, designed and built for James Higgon by renowned local ‘Scaneton’, which in 1572 passed into the hands of Sir John Perrot (as rumour had it an illegitimate son of Henry VIII). Although relatively little is known about the original house, it likely sat on the site of the present-day Home Farm and was certainly imposing: tax records reveal that it had four hearths at a time when more than one was highly exceptional. In 1594 this old manor and the surrounding grounds at Scolton came into the possession of the Higgon family, presence in Carmarthenshire since at least the fourteenth century.