A Grade II* listed building, the house is a "fine historicist essay in the Queen Anne Style, one of the earliest examples in Wales."

Colonel Sir Joseph Alfred Bradney, FSA, BA, JP, DL was a soldier who acquired the estate at Tal-y-Coed through purchase and inheritance.

In 1881, aged 22, he commissioned F. R. Kempson to build the house[1] on the site of Llanvihangel Hall, which had been part of the estate of Crawshay Bailey.

[6] A project is underway (2019) to restore an elaborate horse trough constructed for Bradney on the road from Llantilio Crossenny to Monmouth.

[9] The house is in a Queen Anne style,[1] which John Newman describes as "not at all what one would expect in South Wales at that date.