source: Farm and its inhabitants with some account of the Lloyd’s of Dolobran – Rachel Jane Lowe
In 1780 James Lloyd sold the Dolobran estate, which was bequeathed to him by his brother Charles Exton Lloyd, and, which had belonged to his ancestors for thirteen generations, ”Probably it was much reduced in area by previous sales under the power of a special Act of Parliament, obtained about 1730, in order to over-ride the marriage settlements, and render the property saleable.” Dolobran was bought by a Mr. Jones, a clerk of the peace at Welshpool, probably an attorney who had to do with the mortgage. The last Jones had no son who lived to marry, and Sampson Samuel Lloyd bought Dolobran Hall and Meeting House from the trustees of his daughters, January, 1878.”
Sampson S Lloyd also purchased Garth Fach in 1873. “Henry Lloyd (second son of the late Richard Harman Lloyd) purchased Dolobran Fach and Coedcowrid (the jointure house of the family) in 1872 and 1873. Thus the estate was restored to the family after having been in the possession of others for nearly a century,”fulfilling the poet’s injuction,
“Love thou thy land with love far-bought
From out the pictured past”
TENNYSON
source wikipedia:
Dolobran. A fragment of the house which was from 1486 to 1780 the home of the Lloyds, The three-bay brick house retains a small wing with William and Mary panelling downstairs, and a sizeable external brick chimney to the rear with shaped late 17th century supports. This joins onto a block built onto to the house around 1830. Dolobran had been sold to a Joseph Jones in the later 18th century. It was bought back In 1873 when Henry Lloyd purchased a portion of the old estate (Dolobran Fach). In 1878 Sampson Samuel Lloyd MP (1820-1899) bought back the other part of the estate. Samuel Llewellyn Lloyd (b. 1907) was still at Dolobran in 1969.
source: British listed buildings
Dolobran Hall, Llangyniew
Description: Dolobran Hall
Grade: II*
Date Listed: 19 September 2002
Cadw Building ID: 26960
OS Grid Coordinates: 311849, 312275
Latitude/Longitude: 52.7006, -3.3047
Location: Llangyniew, Welshpool, Powys SY22 6HX
Locality: Llangyniew
County: Powys
Country: Wales
Postcode: SY22 6HX
Location
1 km west of Pontrobert village, reached by a lane to the north of the Pontrobert to Mathrafal road. Farmyard at north and west (including listed farm building), garden to south.
History
Dolobran Hall was the ancestral home of the Lloyd family from the C15. The family at Dolobran became Quakers in the C17 and were concerned in the Mathrafal and Dolobran forges as well as in setting up a coke furnace at Bersham (Wrexham), the latter leading to their bankruptcy in 1728. The Birmingham branch of the family took a pioneering role in the iron industry and in banking.
The house has a main entrance door on the east side in late C17 joinery, and panelling of similar date in the east room of the south wing. On the west side is a giant double chimney arching over another entrance, with Dutch parapets probably also of similar date.
Interior
The notable interior is that of the front room of the south wing (the oak room), in wainscot of the late C17, complete including the fireplace surround and a panel door of the same period. The fireplace surround has a large roll moulding. The ceiling and beams are plain, and it is unclear whether or not carved or moulded work survives behind the modern finish.
Exterior
A large house in brick with slate roofs, the core of which is two ranges meeting in a T; the taller north/south range is of 2� storeys and has two rear lateral chimneys. It is the main range and has been extended to the rear (west) as a two storey part with a catslide roof, and there is a central rear wing with a colossal chimney rising from two fireplaces. It straddles a two-storey recess incorporating an entrance. The east/west range which adjoins at the south side is a cross-wing of two storeys, and appears to be the only survivor of a pair of symmetrical wings. The brickwork, however, is of a lighter red colour than the main part of the house and it may not be contemporary.
The front (east) elevation of the main range is of three windows and symmetrical. The attic is blind. The brickwork is a version of Flemish bond and there is a slight eaves slope from north to south. Double-square 24-pane sash-windows, mostly renovated. Flat arches in brick rubbers, stone sills. At centre is an eight-panel door with large bolection mouldings to the panels and a prominently moulded architrave. The doorframe is pegged at the corners. Modern lightly constructed porch. To left the end of the cross-wing is blank but has mock-timber-framing on the gable.
The south elevation to the garden is of two windows, in similar brickwork with a plat band string course above the sill level of the upper windows. Similar sash windows in altered openings, that at bottom left blind. Cellar window to right with arched head. Modern windows in the rear flank of the main range to left.
The north elevation has a small attic casement window. Below the catslide extension the flank of which appears on this elevation there are small-pane windows above and below. Small modern lean-to porch.
The west elevation is dominated by the great chimney. There are also two brickwork chimneys (lateral to the original range) above the catslide. Within the arch of the great chimney is a modern door and an unequal-sash window of 12 panes above it. Small lean-tos at right and left. To the right is the end elevation of the cross-wing, with one modern window.
Reason for Listing
Listed at grade II* as a substantial remnant of a once fine house, retaining a remarkable rear chimney, with internal and external joinery of the William and Mary period, and for its association with the important Lloyd family.
5 responses
I found out this afternoon that one of my ancestors through my mother’s side was Thomas Lloyd from Dolobran. He was born on September 15, 1675 and died in London in 1718. Is there any possibility that there is information about him in your records? Thank you. Please excuse my mistakes in Welsh. I am still learning the language.
Darganfyddes i y prynhawn ‘ma bod un o’n hynafiaid o’r teulu fy mam roedd Thomas LLoyd o DDolobran. Fe cafodd e’i genedigaeth y 15 Medi 1675 a bu farw 1718 yn Lundain. Oes posibilrwydd bod gwybodaeth amdano fe yn eich cofnodion chi? Diolch yn fawr. Os gwelwch yn dda maddeuwch fy ngwallau yn Cymraeg. Dw i’n yn dal dysgu’r iath.
Hank Williams
Fredericton, New Brunswick Canada
Nothing in my records but if you put “Thomas;lloyd 1675” into Google you will find some results
We are researching information on Llewellyn Lloyd, son of John Lloyd and grandson of Sampson Lloyd II. I wonder if you have any information on that branch of the family. We have a lot of information on Llewellyn after he moved to Sweden but very little information on his life prior to that.
Excerpt from the Kirriemuir Observer and General Advertiser, Thursday 30 August 1945:
“THE CAPERCAILZIE
………… and the species was re-introduced to Scotland from Sweden in 1837 and 1838. The birds, fifty-four in number, two-thirds being females, were sent to Lord Breadalbane by Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton who, through the assistance of his relative, Mr Llewellyn Lloyd, procured them from Sweden. …….”
He also wrote the book “The Game Birds and Wild Fowls of Sweden and Norway”.
No information forthcoming yet about his life prior to Sweden.
The ancestors sight Family search has quite a few links on The Lloyd’s, That go back many generations with various historic links. My Great grandmother was a Lloyd and descendant of Lt. Governor Thomas Lloyd, her family was an early settler in the Oregon trail. Quite a bit of info to search through.