Our Story · Llanfabon
Three hundred years
on the hill.
A seventeenth-century Welsh longhouse, with a story to tell.
The Hall
A family home first.
Then everything else.
Llechwen has been a family mansion, a magistrates' lock-up, a wartime schoolroom for children sent from Kent, and — for a spell nobody quite admits to — a nightclub with banger racing in the fields below.
It became a hotel in 1990. What hasn't changed in three centuries is the reason people climb the hill in the first place: something worth marking, and room enough to do it properly.
The name comes from the Welsh for white slate. It is thought that, at some point in its history, the roof of the hall was laid with it.
The Timeline
A building with previous.
A seventeenth-century Welsh longhouse is bought by the Thomas family, who keep it as a private mansion for the next two hundred and eighteen years.
An outbuilding in the grounds serves the local magistrates as a stopover prison. It still stands, and it still carries the name.
During the Second World War, a school from Kent is evacuated here. When the war ends, it never goes back.
The hall spends a stretch as a pub and nightclub, while the local Banger Racing Club makes use of the surrounding fields.
The Huber family buy the building in a poor state of repair and begin the restoration.
Twelve individually designed bedrooms and a French restaurant. The Coach House follows in 1998, adding eight suites.
The hotel changes hands, and the Ryder family run it for the next seven years.
The present owners take over. Since then they have added the Garden Marquee and an award-winning restaurant set within an orangery.
Visit
Come and add a chapter.
Stay the night, book a table, or come up and see where your wedding could be.