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Troy House

A Tudor Estate Across Time

Author(s) Ann Benson

Hardback - £29.99

Language: English

Genre(s): Welsh Interest, History

March 2017 · 256 pages ·246x189mm

· Hardback - 9781783169894
· eBook - pdf - 9781783169900
· eBook - epub - 9781783169917

About The Book

The architectural history of Troy House in Monmouthshire is positioned at the centre of this extensive new research volume, to support a consideration of how the surrounding land was refashioned over time. Investigating the estate’s main components, first individually and then by cross-referencing the findings, extends our current understanding of them as discreet and at the same time interrelating entities. Previously unrecorded historical features are discovered that belong to the house and its landscape, and comprehensive evidence is applied to challenge current understandings. The house and its pleasure gardens, the walled garden, the farm and the surrounding parkland are demonstrated together by this research to be a rare surviving example, in Wales especially, of a complete Tudor estate with Jacobean and Carolean aggrandisement. As such, Troy House occupies a significant place in history.

About the Author(s)

Author(s): Ann Benson

Ann Benson is a writer and lecturer on Garden and Architectural History specializing in the Tudor and Stuart periods. She has degrees in Garden History (M.A., Distinction), Pedagogy (M.Ed., Ph.D.) and Science (B.Sc., Hons.) Ann taught research methods at the Institute of Historical Research and now gives talks on garden and architectural history to national bodies. She is a history consultant for the Bodleian Library and for several private estate owners including the Duke of Beaufort. Since 2013 she has produced two books, 'A History of Coton Manor and its Garden' and 'Troy House: a Tudor estate across time', and several peer-reviewed articles. Ann is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. Formally, Ann was an academic in the field of learning and assessment at the universities of Oxford, Bristol and the Open University, a Fellow of the Royal Chemical Society, and an assessment consultant for the U.K.’s Cabinet Office.