Bron-y-de

The main house was designed by Philip Tilden for the former British Prime Minister David Lloyd George in 1922.

[2] With the assumption of Lloyd George's occupation of Bron-y-de, Tilden wrote that the 'centre of the political universe was moved from London'.

[1] Lloyd George's mistress, Frances Stevenson lived nearby at 'Avalon', overlooking the orchards of Bron-y-de, having previously occupied the 'Old Barn', a former farm building.

Thomas Jones, visiting Bron-y-de in 1926 noted; “Tilden forgot to put a scullery at Churt: what he forgot at Chartwell I did not discover because he was a subject to be avoided.”[3] C. P. Scott, the editor of the Manchester Guardian and a long-standing associate of Lloyd George, described a visit to Churt in his diary entry for 2-3 February 1924, shortly after the purchase of the estate.

[5] Within a year, Tilden was recalled to make extensions, including the enlargement of existing bedrooms, the provision of new ones, and the construction of a new dining room.

[15] In his memoirs, published in 1954, Tilden expressed the view that Bron-y-de would "become as world-known as many a city, and will no doubt some future day fall into the category of Hatfield, Hughenden or Hawarden".