The wider estate encompasses Monmouthshire's "two outstanding examples of late eighteenth century Gothic", the gates to the park and Clytha Castle.
Although owned by the National Trust, as of April 2021 the house is occupied by tenants and is not open to individuals, but may be visited by "heritage or conservation-based groups" by prior appointment.
[2] His son, William Jones the Younger, from 1862 Herbert,[2] razed the Georgian mansion to the ground and replaced it with the Neoclassical Clytha Park.
[4] In 1955 he married Euphan Wardlaw-Ramsay,[5] and from 1957 with the architect Donald Insall, they undertook the restoration of the wider estate including demolition of the substantial rear service building to leave the present square plan house.
In 1972 they donated Clytha to the National Trust in lieu of death duties, although the family retained a leasehold on the house where they still live today.
Overlooking the house, on a prominent hill, stands the folly of Clytha Castle, constructed by William Jones the Elder in memory of his wife.