Bedwellty House and Park,

BEDWELLTY HOUSE AND PARK, TREDEGAR

Location: tredegar Austin-Smith:Lord was appointed to provide Architecture, Conservation and

Client: Blaenau Council Landscape Design services for a project to restore this Grade II Listed 19th

Value: £4.5M Century House and Parkland and incorporate new elements to complement and enhance the existing building. Size: 1800m2

Completion: 2011 Our work included the preparation of a detailed Conservation Management Service: Architecture, Landscape , conservation, InteriorS Plan and archaeological investigations, leading to the full restoration of this

Sector: arts & Culture rare Regency period estate.

Contractor: John Weaver Construction The buildings and park in Tredegar were transformed into a hub for the local Landscape: Austin-Smith:Lord community, and the project has become a major tourist destination in the Structures: Kpa Associates Heads of the Valleys. Services: Silcock Dawson

Cost Consultant: Davis Langdon

LISTING: grade ii

Bedwellty House was the site of key events Our conservation architects and landscape This understanding and appreciation of the in the life of leading politician Aneurin Bevan, architects painstakingly recreated the house’s history of the house and park has allowed and interactive displays and memorabilia past, and integrated the house and park back them to be returned to their original condition. throughout the house commemorate the father into the daily life of the area. of the modern National Health Service. The Bedwellty House and Park project was To understand more about its history and made possible through grant funding from the The house is owned by Blaenau Gwent County how the house and park appeared before its Heritage Lottery Fund, Heads of The Valleys Borough Council and under our proposals was decline, we carried out extensive community Fund, CADW and the Welsh Government in transformed into a heritage asset, a Registry consultation and research which included the addition to Blaenau Gwent County Borough office and an elegant visitor attraction. The analysis of old postcards and photographs. Council. house has also become home to the local archives, and a new tea room was created in the old Orchid House.