Nanteos Mansion

At its peak the Nanteos estate comprised some 31,000 acres in 1800,[1] covering most of what is today Aberystwyth, and was the major employer of the county.

The earliest recorded occupant of the estate was Colonel John Jones, a Royalist during the English Civil War and High Sheriff of Cardiganshire for 1665.

He had no sons and so the estate was inherited in 1666 by his daughter Anne, who had married a Dutch mining engineer, Cornelius Le Brun, who in turn became High Sheriff in 1676.

Their only daughter Averina duly inherited, having married William Powell (1658–1738) of Llechwedd Dyrus, and passed it on in 1738 to their eldest son, Thomas.

Thomas had married a wealthy heiress, Mary Frederick, and started to build the present house soon afterwards.