David Pugh (14 August 1789 – 20 April 1861) was a wealthy tea trader, a Welsh landowner and Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1832, and again between 1847 and 1861.
In 1820 David Pugh rebuilt the house in the Gothic Revival style introducing the romantic turrets and castellations.
The family also placed great importance on landscaping the surrounding parkland by employing John Adey Repton.
On 11 July 1814 Pugh married, his cousin Anne, only daughter and heiress of Evan Vaughan of Beguildy, Radnorshire.
: His descendant, Captain Peter Audley David Arthur Lovell, also became High Sheriff for Montgomeryshire in 1900.