Llantysilio Hall

The estate was purchased by the Victorian locomotive designer and builder Charles Beyer in 1867.

He was co-founder of Beyer, Peacock & Company, one of the world's leading locomotive manufacturers.

[2] Beyer, a bachelor, built the 25-bedroom mansion house, soon after his business partner, Henry Robertson, rebuilt nearby Palé Hall,[3] Llandderfel.

For example, the larger, south-facing, drawing room has a Carrara marble chimneypiece with giallo antico columns and three cameos in the frieze, of Queen Victoria, Robertson's wife (formerly Elizabeth Dean of Brymbo Hall, who met Queen Victoria at Palé Hall when her son – and Beyer's godson – Henry Beyer Robertson played host and was subsequently knighted), and Shakespearean actress Helena Faucit (Beyer's nearest neighbour, at Bryntysilio Hall, with her husband Sir Theodore Martin, author of the official biography of Prince Albert, Life of the Prince Consort).

Sir Henry Robertson became head of Brymbo Steelworks, responsible for its rescue in the 1930s and the development of the new blast furnaces.