Fronfraith Hall is a mid-Victorian house in the historic parish of Llandyssil in the shire area of Montgomeryshire in Powys.

[5] A family dispute then arose and on the order of the Court of Chancery the Fronfraith Estate was put up for sale, and was sold at auction as single lot, in Manchester on 21 July 1871.

Fronfraith Hall is described as A Newly Erected Handsome, Large and Commodious Mansion… Charmingly situated and replete with every convenience, suited for a family of distinction, and surrounded by a beautiful and Romantic Park, studded with Ornamental and Choice Trees, and Terraces commanding the Most Extensive, Picturesque and Varied Views.

They were to put it up for auction September 1931 and it was sold, with exception of the Waterloo Public House to John Crawford Allen of Croydon.

[7] Allen must have been a property speculator because in 1932, he sold it to Senator Rupert Davies (1879–1967), Canadian politician and newspaper editor, who was born in Welshpool.

[8] His son, Robertson Davies (1913–1995), the noted Canadian novelist and Shakespearian scholar, lived at times at Fronfraith in the late 1930s.